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“Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
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“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.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth”
John Adams quotes (American 2nd US President (1797-1801), 1735-1826)
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“The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion”
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“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”
Aristotle quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC)
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“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
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“Fear is the foundation of most governments.”
John Adams quotes (American 2nd US President (1797-1801), 1735-1826)
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“Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.”
John Adams quotes (American 2nd US President (1797-1801), 1735-1826)
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“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
Henry Louis Mencken quotes (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)
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“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”
George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
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