Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

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

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.