“Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.…
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“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.…
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“But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual;…
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“…and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.” —George Washington
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"The best constitution is controlled by a numerous middle class which stands between the rich and the poor. ..A constitution based on the middle class is the mean between the extremes of oligarchy and democracy" Aristotle. USA is a oligarchy run by the Kochs and Devoses.
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@alllibertynews you need to check your algo, your indiscriminate retweeting is catching garbage tweets.
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