Your search for "avoid anarchy" returned 13 results from 9 Founders.
Gouverneur Morris:"For avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy ... the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people. I believe that religion is the only solid base of morals and that morals are the only possible support of free governments."source: "A Diary of the French Revolution", (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1939), Vol. II, p. 172, April 29, 1791; Vol. II, p. 452, to Lord George Gordon, June 28, 1792Religion, Morals, Freedom, avoid despotism, avoid anarchy
John Adams:"Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy; such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit, and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable [abominable] cruelty of one or a very few."source: An Essay on Man’s Lust for Power, 1763Democracy, Bad Government, anarchy
John Adams:"Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy; such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit, and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable [abominable] cruelty of one or a very few."source: The Papers of John Adams, Robert J. Taylor, editor (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1977), Vol. I, p. 83, from "An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, with the Author's Comment in 1807," written on August 29, 1763Democracy, Bad Government, anarchy
Fisher Ames:"A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way."source: Fisher Ames, Works of Fisher Ames (Boston: T. B. Wait & Co., 1809), p. 24, Speech on Biennial Elections, delivered January, 1788.Democracy, Bad Government, anarchy
Fisher Ames:"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness [excessive license] which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty."source: Ames, Works, p. 384, "The Dangers of American Liberty," February 1805.Democracy, Bad Government, anarchy
Gouverneur Morris:"We have seen the tumult of democracy terminate . . . as [it has] everywhere terminated, in despotism. . . . Democracy! savage and wild. Thou who wouldst bring down the virtuous and wise to thy level of folly and guilt."source: An Oration Delivered on Wednesday, June 29, 1814, at the Request of a Number of Citizens of New-York, in Celebration of the Recent Deliverance of Europe from the Yoke of Military Despotism (New York: Van Winkle and Wiley, 1814), pp. 10, 22.Democracy, Bad Government, anarchy
John Quincy Adams:"The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived."source: The Jubilee of the Constitution. A Discourse Delivered in the City of New York on Tuesday, April 30th, 1839; (New York: Samuel Colman, 1839), p. 53.Democracy, Bad Government, anarchy
Benjamin Rush:"A simple democracy . . . is one of the greatest of evils."source: The Letters of Benjamin Rush, L. H. Butterfield, editor (Princeton: Princeton University Press for the American Philosophical Society, 1951), Vol. I, p. 523, to John Adams on July 21, 1789.Democracy, Bad Government, anarchy
Noah Webster:"In democracy . . . there are commonly tumults and disorders. . . Therefore a pure democracy is generally a very bad government. It is often the most tyrannical government on earth."source: (Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1801), pp. 103-104.Democracy, Bad Government, anarchy
John Witherspoon:"Pure democracy cannot subsist long nor be carried far into the departments of state, it is very subject to caprice and the madness of popular rage."source: The Works of John Witherspoon (Edinburgh: J. Ogle, 1815), Vol. VII, p. 101, Lecture 12 on Civil Society.Democracy, Bad Government, anarchy
Zephaniah Swift:"It may generally be remarked that the more a government resembles a pure democracy the more they abound with disorder and confusion."source: Zephaniah Swift, A System of the Laws of the State of Connecticut (Windham: John Byrne, 1795), Vol. I, p. 19. Democracy, Bad Government, anarchy
James Madison:"Weakness will invite insults. The best way to avoid danger is to be in a capacity to withstand it. "source: Federalist Papers, 3:309weakness, overcoming weakness, avoiding danger, withstanding danger
John Adams:"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist."source: Charles Francis Adams, ed., The words of John Adams, 10 vols. 6:9, p. 280.property, socialism, ownership of property, principle of freedom

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