Quotes & Notes

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville

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

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. ~ Fisher Ames

Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would argue it to pieces. ~ Henry Louis Mencken

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ~ Henry Louis Mencken