democrat quotes

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

- RalphWaldo Emerson
  Representative Men,'Napoleon, the Man of the World'.

I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

- Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ Johnson
  Texas Quarterly, winter issue.

Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocratone Who can rule and dare not lie.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.1, sect.10, stanza 5, l.389^95.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinctnobody is that. Doubtless some people say theyare, but this world isgrievously given to lying.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  Notebook, ch.31, Feb^Mar.