Friends of Liberty: Defenders of Liberty Conference

I will be in Chino and Murrieta speaking on the Constitution during the weekend of April 16 and 17. In May, I will be in Menifee at the Defenders of Liberty Conference:


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And from our friends at Friends of Liberty, a few quotes about democracies:


America is a Republic not a Democracy Not once in the ”Declaration of Independence“, the ”U.S. Constitution” or the “Bill of Rights” will you find the word Democracy. Our Founding Fathers wanted the new nation to be a Republic not a Democracy. They knew that Democracies are spawning grounds for tyranny. Please read the following quotes to learn what men much more intelligent than I said about Democracies.

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
Thomas Jefferson

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner”
James Bovard

“Democracy is the road to socialism.”
Karl Marx

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson

“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
Aristotle

“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

"The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived."
John Quincy Adams -

"In democracy there are commonly tumults and disorders, therefore a pure democracy is generally a very bad government. It is often the most tyrannical government on earth."
Noah Webster -

"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 have been violent in their deaths."
James Madison

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