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Quote from Elbridge Gerry,


The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.


By:

Elbridge Gerry (more quotes by Elbridge Gerry or books by/about 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

Categories:

Democracy, Hypocrisy, Patriotism, Virtue

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