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To: OWK
Thanks. I don't remember who said it, but I recall someone saying...

"When put into practice, Democracy is purposeless, irrational, subject to public opinion and passing fashions, rambling, confused, underhanded, scheming, and in love with it's own purity... kind of like a woman. "
802 posted on 10/20/2003 8:57:27 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Francis Scott Key was a One-Hit Wonder)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Democracy (absent the restraint on power provided by the rights of individuals) is the most horrific form of government imaginable.

When the tyrant is a despotic dictator, the people may simply rise up and cast him off.

But to whom does one appeal, when the tyrant is the majority of one's own countrymen?

812 posted on 10/20/2003 9:06:40 PM PDT by OWK
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To: Chad Fairbanks
LOL
849 posted on 10/20/2003 9:32:03 PM PDT by Syncro
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