Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

We don't have to settle for disgraceful politics. We don't have to settle for being as terrible as Donald Trump.

Soaring rhetoric will not restore the American people's confidence in their government.

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.