“Democracy could not last, for despotism lies at the door; when the tyranny of the majority leads to chaos, society will submit to rule by the sword”
“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction.”
“The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness, which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be, liberty.”
“It has never happened in the world, and it never will, that a democracy has been kept out of the control of the fiercest and most turbulent spirits in the society; they will breathe into it all their fury and make it subservient to the worst designs of the worst men.”
~ Fisher Ames, US Representative for Massachusetts, 1758-1808
