Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.
All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.
