“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.” James Fenimore Cooper, (1789-1851) American Novelist. Source: The American Democrat, XIV, 1838
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“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” George Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist.
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“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”…

“Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.” Fisher Ames, (1758-1808), American statesman, orator and political writer
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“Institutions purely democratic must, sooner, or later, destroy liberty or civilization or both.” Thomas Babington Macaulay, (1800-1859) [Lord Macaulay] 1st Baron Macaulay, British historian. Source: Letter to H.S. Randall, May 23, 1857
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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, (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source: No source found.
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“According to Gestapo records… they had little need to engage in direct spying on the citizens since the citizens themselves were more than willing to do their spying for them.” Kort E. Patterson, Source: Port of Call, August/September 1999
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“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality……

“Men willingly believe what they wish.” Gaius Julius Caesar, (100-44 B.C.) Dictator of the Roman Republic
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“Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.” Maimonides, (1135-1204) Jewish philosopher. Source Reference Maimonides Quote

“It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law… that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.” H. L. Mencken, (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist,…

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” Patrick Henry, (1736-1799) US Founding Father
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