A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a freer aspect,& the laws favor a subdivision of property.

[It] is indispensable that some provision should be made for defending the Community agst [against] the incapicity, negligence or perfidy of the chief Magistrate.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.