Fisher Ames Quote

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office...

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

Any constituency that needs amending, is a prototype in error.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

[Voltaire] theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if they do not bring on civil war, at least destroy national unity; it is suited only to small states pr...

If the Nazis are Socialists simply because they call themselves Socialists, then North Korea really is a Democratic Republic.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.

Democracy changes its opinions from time to time, philosophy doesn't.

As the nation divided into Federalists and Republicans, each group called the other the worst name possible: party. Most Americans feared the idea of party; believing that a society should unite to ac...