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 As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the princ
  Niccolo Machiavelli

 Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

 Democracy consists of choosing your dictators after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear

 Democracy consists of choosing your dictators after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear

 Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.

 Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

 Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
  Eleanor Roosevelt

 Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised
  Robert Maynard Hutchins

 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
  George Bernard Shaw

 Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
  George Bernard Shaw

 Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
  Henry Louis Mencken

 Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
  Dr. Laurence J. Peter

 Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
  Henry Louis Mencken

 Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
  Jorge Luis Borges

 Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would argue it to pieces
  Henry Louis Mencken


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