For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going.
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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