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 any thing better than despotism. American Literature (1805)
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness, which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be, liberty. The Dangers of American Liberty (1805)
[The framers of the Constitution] “intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.”