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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."
-- John Adams, letter to John Taylor, April 15, 1814
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to
insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.”
Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons [June 15, 1874]
goldmine of pertinent quotes : http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/quotes.html
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