Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy..

The general will is always right..

Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue….

Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes.

... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized..

From the viewpoint of economic democracy, the capitalism-socialism debate was a debate between private and state capitalism (i.e., the private or pub….

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy..

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen..

We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is the left extreme..

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe..

Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before..

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice..

Everybody says, "Well, if it's a democracy, let them have nuclear weapons." America is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons. We're the….

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us..

I think a decent society should protect rights to private property within limits, but not concentrations of private power that infringe on the freedo….

It can sound trite if you just say citizens need to be educated for democracy to work, but for him it wasn't trite. It was really this strenuous chal….

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture ….

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war..

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice..

During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.... ….

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity..