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“The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.”

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James Russell Lowell was an American poet, born on February 22, 1819, and died on August 12, 1891. His poetry is known for its profound social insights and admiration for nature. more

“[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often... oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country.”

Should Country Government Democracy Lovers Essence Property Tyranny Chiefs Minorities Owners Republic Conventions Sage Truest Despotism Factions Constitutional Convention Rigour

Author:Fisher Ames

“They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.”

Would Be Natural Proof Tyranny Superiors Sheep Arrangements Superiority Justified Shepherds Legislators Organizer

Book:The Law

Source: The Law

“Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.”

Natural Moral Intellectual Privilege Corruption Tyranny Cowardice

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else.”

Persons Ideas Cases Brave Tyranny Manage Strongest Coward

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.”

Given Democracy Clear Shapes Patterns Tyranny Incubation

Book:On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth

Source: On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth

“A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.”

Men Honest Example Citizens Tyranny Innocent Guilty Innocent Man

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their irresistible strength. I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the inadequate securities which one finds there against tyranny.”

Doe Country States Evil United Liberty United States Security Weakness Europe Raises Institutions Democratic Tyranny Reign Irresistible Inadequate

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

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