The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts and not absolute and general,

We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.

The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.

We must either breed political capacity or be ruined by Democracy, which was forced on us by the failure of the older alternatives. Yet if Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters: that is, of political critics who, if they cannot govern in person for lack of spare energy or specific talent for administration, can at least recognize and appreciate capacity and benevolence in others, and so govern through capably benevolent representatives? Where are such voters to be found today? Nowhere.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.