Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
Category: democracy
Democracy and taxes
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Democracy never lasts long
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true in fact and no where appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud violence and cruelty.
Overbearing majority
Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.
Democracy
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.