No Man Can Be A Sound Lawyer

The Known Propensity Of A Democracy Is To Licentiousness Which The Ambitious Call, And Ignorant Believe To Be Liberty.

[the Framers Of The Constitution] Intended Our Government Should Be A Republic, Which Differs More Widely From A Democracy Than A Democracy From A Despotism.

I Have Heard It Remarked That Men Are Not To Be Reasoned Out Of An Opinion They Have Not Reasoned Themselves Into.

The People As A Body Cannot Deliberate. Nevertheless, They Will Feel An Irresistible Impulse To Act, And Their Resolutions Will Be Dictated To Them By Their Demagogues... And The Violent Men, Who Are The Most Forward To Gratify Those Passions, Will Be Their Favorites. What Is Called The Government Of The People Is In Fact Too Often The Arbitrary Power Of Such Men. Here, Then, We Have The Faithful Portrait Of Democracy.

The House Is Composed Of Very Good Men, Not Shining, But Honest And Reasonably Well-informed, And In Time Will Be Found To Improve, And Not Much Inferior In Eloquence, Science, And Dignity, To The British Commons. They Are Patriotic Enough, And I Believe There Are More Stupid (as Well As More Shining) People In The Latter, In Proportion.