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2008 March 07
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"Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge." |
"Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been
no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings." |
"Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants." |
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2008 March 06
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"The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny." |
"The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity." |
"Institutions purely democratic must, sooner, or later, destroy liberty or civilization or both." |
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2008 March 05
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"If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of the public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of the public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valueable, and your freedom less complete." |
"It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws." |
"The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy.
The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots." |
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2008 March 04
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"Remember, democracy never lasts long.
It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.
There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." |
"[N]o good government but what is republican...
the very definition of a republic is
'an empire of laws, and not of men.'" |
"All good government is and must be republican. But at the same time, you can or will agree with me, that there is not in lexicography a more fraudulent word... Are we not, my friend, in danger of rendering the word republican unpopular in this country by an indiscreet, indeterminate, and equivocal use of it? [...] Whenever I use the word republic with approbation, I mean a government in which the people have collectively, or by representation, an essential share in the sovereignty... the republican forms in Poland and Venice are much worse, and those of Holland and Bern very little better, than the monarchical form in France before the late revolution." |
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2008 March 03
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"The United States shall guarantee to every State
in this Union a Republican Form of Government." |
"If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a
majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have
become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared
with those who claimed the right to rule over them." |
"If there be any among us who would wish
to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form,
let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety
with which error of opinion may be tolerated
where reason is left free to combat it." |
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