[Tailgunner Joe]

"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

[andy_card]

"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

That's just silly. No one advocates a total democracy, like what existed sporadically in classical Athens. But some measure of representative democracy is absolutely crucial to any sort of long-term stability. And remember, Adams was writing at a time when every power in the world was a monarchy; that's since changed.