Aristocracy Quote by James Madison

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the…

— Abraham Lincoln

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

— Alf Landon

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism…

— Earl Warren

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose.…

— Abraham Lincoln

“I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us, of proving that popular govenment is not an absurdity.…

— Abraham Lincoln

The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is…

— Theodore Roosevelt

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down…

— Walter Lippmann

“In a recurring theme among progressives, Croly condemned the Constitution’s separation of powers, a doctrine essential to averting centralized tyranny, as the main obstacle…

— Mark R. Levin

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity…

— Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

— Albert Camus

This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where…

— Howard Nemerov

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

— James Madison