Can anyone say "Global Warming is real: we have a consensus"?
Check on Obama’s missing birth certificate?
“We cannot thwart the will of the people.”
James Madison (essay #10 of the Federalist Papers):
“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.”
Thomas Jefferson:
“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.”
Benjamin Franklin:
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”
Alexander Hamilton:
“We are a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.”
John Adams:
“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.”
When I read this book the first time more than 30 years ago it crystalized my budding political views.
Rereading it now, it seems prophetic.