• All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent.

    Fisher Ames: All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent.
    Fisher Ames (1835). “The influences of democracy on liberty, property, and the happiness of society, considered”, p.45