Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-03-06 Mar 6, 2008The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.~ Edmund BurkeThe tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.~ James Fenimore CooperInstitutions purely democratic must, sooner, or later, destroy liberty or civilization or both.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Mar 5, 2008If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of the public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of the public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valueable, and your freedom less complete.~ Benjamin DisraeliIt will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.~ Dick CheneyThe evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.~ Elbridge Gerry Mar 4, 2008Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.~ John Adams[N]o good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'~ John AdamsAll good government is and must be republican. But at the same time, you can or will agree with me, that there is not in lexicography a more fraudulent word... Are we not, my friend, in danger of rendering the word republican unpopular in this country by an indiscreet, indeterminate, and equivocal use of it? [...] Whenever I use the word republic with approbation, I mean a government in which the people have collectively, or by representation, an essential share in the sovereignty... the republican forms in Poland and Venice are much worse, and those of Holland and Bern very little better, than the monarchical form in France before the late revolution.~ John Adams Mar 3, 2008The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.~ Constitution for the United StatesIf our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.~ Lysander SpoonerIf there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.~ Thomas Jefferson Feb 29, 2008I don’t give a goddamn. I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way. ... Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!~ George W. BushCivil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.~ Justice Robert H. JacksonThe two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print