The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.

And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.