“Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.”
“Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.”
“A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.”
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
“Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.”
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”