The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.