Actually people who live in the US don't live in a democracy, it's actually a constitutional republic. It's a subtle, but important difference.

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%." — Thomas Jefferson

"Democracy is the road to socialism." — Karl Marx (father of communism)

"We can keep a Republic, or we will eventually end up with an Oligarchy - a tyranny of the elite." — Benjamin Franklin

"We are a Republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of democracy." — Alexander Hamilton