Posted on 07/15/2021 8:57:55 PM PDT by libertasbella
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." – Winston Churchill
"Democracy, will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes, and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure and every one of these will soon mold itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues, and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit, and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few." – John Adams
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. – John Adams
"It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act right; but then evil of this nature seldom fail to work their own cure." – George Washington
"Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure." – James Madison
"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." – James Madison
"Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments." – Alexander Hamilton
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Thanks! I collected these quotes using my big brain.
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