Ted Yoho Quotes

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.

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 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.

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

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.

What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

There's a big difference in a representative republic and a democracy. We do not have a democracy in America.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.

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.

No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many.

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

What constitutes a republic is the total destruction of everything that stands in opposition to it.

In a Madisonian system, it is often more important how you do something than what you do.

Australians find the American political system lovable but odd.

I see the government operating the way the founders intended.

Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?

The United States is a constitutional republic, and the Founding Fathers fought to ensure that the mob couldn't undermine it.

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.

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.

The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.