Fisher Ames (1758-1808) was a U.S. House representative, a Federalist, serving from 1789 to 1797. He opposed slavery and supported a strong central government under a republican structure.
I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
Liberty has never yet lasted long in a democracy; nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness, which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be, liberty.
[A republic] differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
