"Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation."

“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact;

if it be democratic, then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both.

One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.

All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.  Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it.

And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

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

"... so this is how democracy ends... with thunderous applause..."

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.