"The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy.
The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots." | Quote by: | Elbridge Gerry
(1744-1814) of Massachusetts, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Member of the Constitutional Convention |
Source: | Speech in the Constitutional Convention, 1787 |
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