"--Dr. Charles Eliot.
"But liberty is not the chief and constant object of their (the American
people) desires: equality is their idol; they make rapid and sudden
efforts to obtain liberty and if they miss their aim, resign themselves
to their disappointment; but nothing can satisfy them without equality,
and they would rather perish than lose it."--De Tocqueville: Democracy
in America, 1835.
"A government is for the benefit of all the people. We believe that
this benefit is best accomplished by popular government because in
the long run each class of individuals is apt to secure better
provision for themselves through their own voice in government than
through the altruistic interest of others, however intelligent or
philanthropic."--William H. Taft in Special Message.
"I have listened to some very honest and eloquent orators whose
sentiments were noteworthy for this: that when they spoke of the people,
they were not thinking of themselves, they were thinking of somebody
whom they were commissioned to take care of. And I have seen them shiver
when it was suggested that they arrange to have something done by the
people for themselves."--The New Freedom, by Woodrow Wilson.
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