Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the kee….

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, ….

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint fr….

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality..

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

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 ….

I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about the people. It is the stal….

A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They deride the ….

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..

The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated to them b….

We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the pol….

We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accu….

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language..

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

[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for….

Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on th….

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a de….

Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble....In no Book is ther….

[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than ….

All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is th….

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