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Because majority rule becomes mob rule democracy contains within it the seeds of its own destruction.
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.
Marvin Simkin, "Individual Rights", Los Angeles Times, 12 January 1992
Maybe that’s why they don't want the Pledge of allegiance to be said in schools. "I pledge allegiance to the Republic...."
Another good quote:
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov
Good Asimov quote. :)
O.A.
Wish the numbers would have been there for the battery project we talked about a while back. Hope they have success. My investors just would not go for it.
"Absolute" democracy is as bad as "absolute" anything: Monarchy, Czar, Fuehrer, Supreme Leader...I hesitate to say it's the worst...but it may be...
How many of us would be "voted off the island"? (Applause).
Representative Republic requires 2/3 for approval, meaning at least 1/2 of 1/2 on the "opposing side agree.
HELLO! politicians, leftist teachers and media fools...
"Hence it is that democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general have been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths... A republic, by which I mean a government in which a scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking." James Madison, Federalist Papers No. 10 (1787).
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" Ben Franklin
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” Thomas Jefferson
“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
http://www.whatourforefathersthought.com...
who had morals than just me. -- j
"Absolute" democracy is as bad as "absolute" anything: Monarchy, Czar, Fuehrer, Supreme Leader...I hesitate to say it's the worst...but it may be...
How many of us would be "voted off the island"? (Applause).