Anticipate Quote by Hunter S. Thompson

“Thomas Jefferson taught that a democracy was impractical unless the people were educated.”

— Carl Sagan

Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.

— Charles A. Beard

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Democracy was always a gamble. In 1776, the founders rejected the old idea that government should be based on hierarchies according to wealth or…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their…

— Walter E. Williams

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

— Herbert Croly

Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this…

— Henry Adams

Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica…

— Gore Vidal

Jeffersonian democracy, faulty as it is, and only the fragment of it that we have, is a thing of such preciousness, a thing of…

— W. S. Merwin

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its…

— Paul Tsongas

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

— Ron Paul

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

— Peggy Noonan