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Topics => General Board => Topic started by: Libertas on February 25, 2011, 02:47:19 PM

Title: All this blather about "democracy" flying around lately...
Post by: Libertas on February 25, 2011, 02:47:19 PM

...the Founders warned us of diverging from our Representative Republic and devolving into the chaos of democracy...it's never too late to revisit their wisdom!

My contribution -

"[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few." --John Adams, An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, 1763

 ::bows::

Title: Re: All this blather about "democracy" flying around lately...
Post by: IronDioPriest on February 25, 2011, 04:27:23 PM

"If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.”
 -Winston Churchill

Title: Re: All this blather about "democracy" flying around lately...
Post by: IronDioPriest on February 25, 2011, 04:28:20 PM

“Democracy is indispensable to socialism.”
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Title: Re: All this blather about "democracy" flying around lately...
Post by: Dan on February 25, 2011, 04:55:28 PM

That Lenin quote should scare the hell out of anybody paying attention.