Cannot Quote by Marquis de Lafayette

“The democratic nations that have introduced freedom into their political constitution at the very time when they were augmenting the despotism of their administrative…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become…

— Benjamin Franklin

The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain…

— George Will

“Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.”

— Bill Moyers

“When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the…

— Aristotle

The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will…

— Ludwig von Mises

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it…

— Gustav Radbruch

Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

— Clinton Rossiter

Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been…

— John Quincy Adams

“Constitutional democracy can only survive if the people of our nation are moral.”

— Ronald R. Cooke

It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature…

— Alexander Hamilton