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Quote from Thomas Carlyle,


Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business:
and gives in the long run a net result of zero.


By:

Thomas Carlyle (more quotes by Thomas Carlyle or books by/about Thomas Carlyle)


(1795-1881) Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian

Source:

Chartism, VI 1839

Categories:

Democracy, Economics, Tyranny

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