I must know whether America is right or wrong.

Just now this question is a very practical one, for I really want to know whether to believe in Mr.Ratcliffe.If I throw him overboard, everything must go, for he is only a specimen." "Why not believe in Mr.Ratcliffe ?" said Gore; "I believe in him myself, and am not afraid to say so." Carrington, to whom Ratcliffe now began to represent the spirit of evil, interposed here, and observed that he imagined Mr.Gore had other guides besides, and steadier ones than Ratcliffe, to believe in; while Madeleine, with a certain feminine perspicacity, struck at a much weaker point in Mr.
Gore's armour, and asked point-blank whether he believed also in what Ratcliffe represented: "Do you yourself think democracy the best government, and universal suffrage a success ?" Mr.Gore saw himself pinned to the wall, and he turned at bay with almost the energy of despair: "These are matters about which I rarely talk in society; they are like the doctrine of a personal God; of a future life; of revealed religion; subjects which one naturally reserves for private reflection.

But since you ask for my political creed, you shall have it.

I only condition that it shall be for you alone, never to be repeated or quoted as mine.

I believe in democracy.