When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards our fellow men.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.