I suppose that's democracy really. But everybody with a laptop thinks they're a journalist these days. That's a problem.

You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

If it's good for China, opening up and encouraging democracy and so on, why isn't it good for Cuba?