I had thought in the past that I read that Jefferson wasn't in favor of the United States being a democracy, but in a recent discussion someone said this was not so...

Then while reading on here, I saw the quote-

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine"

-that someone had in their signature...
To me, that sounds pretty anit-democracy... Does anyone happen to know, when he said that, or what about... And! Was he against a democracy? I had though that he was in favor of a rule by the intelligent, not totally sure what that is called...