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| Democracy Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Winston Churchill, English political leader, House of Commons, 1947. A democracy - that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake, I will call it the idea of Freedom. Theodore Parker in The American Idea, 1850. |
Democracy If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher, in Politics. We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate government. Alexander Hamilton, American political leader, Federal Convention Debates, June 26, 1787. The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. Lord Acton, English scholar, The History of Freedom and Other Essays, 1907. |
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