A Citizen's Guide to Preserving Democracy (2024)

“If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny.” —William Blake
At the time of the Constitution for the American Republic was punned everyone, at that time ,understood Democracy was a foolish, short-lived precursor to an imminent collapse and ripe for dictatorship. This settled issue is supported by universal, historical common knowledge making it insane anyone would promote preserving such a thing except to expose the conspiracy of the ones advocating such subversive agendas:
"Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.” —Edmund Burke
“Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.” —Bob Dylan
“Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.” —Hannah Arendt
“Nothing is so irresistible as the tyrannical power commanding in the name of the people, because while wielding the moral power which belongs to the will of the greater number, it acts at the same time with the quickness and persistence of a single man.” —Alexis de Tocqueville
“The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.” —Lord Acton
“The Spirit that prevails among Men of all degrees, all ages and sexes is the Spirit of Liberty.” —Abigail Adams, 1775
“A government of laws, and not of men.” “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
“Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees, and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.”
—Henry Clay
“Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere and not jus dare; to interpret law and not to make or give law.” —Francis Bacon
“It is my belief that there are ‘absolutes’ in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant, and meant their prohibitions to be ‘absolute.’” —Hugo L. Black
“Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” —Louis Brandeis
“Of the three forms of government, monarchy, aristocracy, and the people, the best is a mixture of all three for each one taken on its own can lead to disaster. Kings can be capricious, aristocrats, self-interested, and an unbridled multitude enjoying unwanted power more terrifying then a conflagration or a raging sea." —Cicero
“A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.” —Joseph de Maistre

“Here in America we are descended from revolutionists and rebels—men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

Someone brought a kitten into school
and when they were thinking of a name for it
and little Johnny asked “is it a boy or a girl kitten”
but no-one knew
and no-one knew how to tell for sure
so they decided to put it to a vote
because that’s democracy.