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Form of Government
"We are a republic. Real liberty is never found in despotism
or in the extremes of democracy." Alexander Hamilton. (Emphasis
added.)
"Democracy has never been and never can be so desirable as
aristocracy or monarchy, but while it lasts, is more bloody than
either. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes,
exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that
never did commit suicide." John Adams, 1815. (Emphasis added.)
"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and
contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal
security, or the right to property; and have been as short in their
lives as they have been violent in their deaths." James Madison.
"Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference
is like that between order and chaos." Chief Justice John
Marshall.
"The delusions of democracy, like other delusions of the human
mind cannot be resisted by reason and truth alone. . . .Reason will
not answer--reason will not protect your houses, ships, and stables
from thieves. You must have for protection the controlling fear of
God and fear of government." Impartial Herald (Suffolk,
Connecticut), May 21, 1799, quoted by John C. Miller in The
Federalist Era, p. 111, published by Harper & Brothers, 1960.
(Emphasis added.)
Note also Ames, Fisher Ames, II, 79, 81, 212-214.