Democracy

• Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
• Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
• Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
• ower always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
• All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
•  Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
• Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
• There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
• A government of laws, and not of men.
• The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
• I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
• Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
•  I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.