Democracy Quote by Alexander Hamilton

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Fisher Ames

Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion…

— Immanuel Kant

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

— Frederic Bastiat

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

— Baron de Montesquieu

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.

— Mustafa Akyol

Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue

— John Adams

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

— Honore de Balzac

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

— Walter Savage Landor

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

— Margaret Thatcher

Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment…

— Joseph Stalin

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

— Georg Buchner