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

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

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

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

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

There never was a democracy yet where the people didn't vote themselves into oblivion.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.