"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. "
Benjamin Franklin
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself."
John Adams
“democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.”
James Madison
“The democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.”
Alexander Hamilton