Thomas Korologos Quotes

The Founding Fathers gladly sacrificed government that could provide speedy, effective, cohesive, and internally consistent policies. They opted for one that had a maximum number of veto points and checks and balances and protections against tyranny by particular officials or tyranny by selfish majorities.

The United States is dangerously close to becoming a democracy instead of a republic.

The founding fathers set up this country as a republic—not a democracy.

The founding fathers hated two things, one was monarchy and the other was, democracy, they gave us a constitution that saw to it we will have neither.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

The American political system was created by a bunch of geniuses so that it could be run by a bunch of idiots.

Our founding fathers created a system of government of men, not of angels.

American democracy is a unique form of government which at the same time requires [political] competition and cooperation.

The framers of the American Constitution were far from wishing or intending to found a democracy in the strict sense of the word, though, as was inevitable, every expansion of the scheme of government they elaborated has been in a democratical direction. But this has been generally the slow result of growth, and not the sudden innovation of theory…

Some have argued that the United States was designed to block majority rule; to be a 'republic, not a democracy.' This is ahistorical nonsense.

The transformation of the United States from a traditional republic to a democratic nation run in large measure by a single executive took a couple of hundred years.

Well, when did this become a monarchy? You know, we are the people. The president works for us and, you know, we need to remember that.

America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

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.

The Constitution lies at the core of our civil religion.

I was only one-half the appointing power. I nominated, but the Senate confirmed.

We can't have a referendum on every important question. This is a republic, not a democracy. This is Chicago, not California.

Democracy in America is more than a two minute sound byte.

I am sensible that there are defects in our federal government, yet they are so much lighter than those of monarchies, that I view them with much indulgence. I rely, too, on the good sense of the people for remedy, whereas the evils of monarchical government are beyond remedy. If any of our countrymen wish for a King, give them Aesop's fable of the frogs who asked a King; if this does not cure them, send them to Europe. They will go back good republicans.

Our American concept of government rests on the idea of a dominant Congress.

The existence of parties is not necessary to a free government.

Our President is not a King, nor our senate a House of Lords.