The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness…
which the ambitious call…
and ignorant believe,
to be liberty.
~ Fisher Ames, speech in the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788 ~
Quote credit: Patriot Post
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Related:
Occupy Chicago – Oct. 22nd ~ Protesters’ signs of confusion. “Liberal Fascism” (to borrow a phrase from Jonah Goldberg) on display.
