Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.

To make yourself something less than you can be - that too is a form of suicide

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: "I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later. . ."

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.