Democracy Quote by Steve Scalise

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

— Michael Beschloss

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

— Ron Paul

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

— Tom Coburn

It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that…

— David Barton

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

If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become…

— Lysander Spooner

You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus…

— Olympia Snowe

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

— Stephen Colbert

“The Founders believed these same principles would work for any nation. The key was using the government to protect equal rights, not to provide…

— W. Cleon Skousen

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

— Hunter S. Thompson

All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.

— James Cook

The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate…

— Steven Van Zandt