"It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this.
The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity."~Alexander Hamilton
Speech in New York, urging ratification of the U.S. Constitution (1788-06-21)
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"I say, the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right.
The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on.
For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence."~Thomas Jefferson
Letter to James Madison, 6 September 1789
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