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"No good government but what is republican...
the very definition of a republic is
'an empire of laws, and not of men.'"
-- John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source: "Thoughts on Government" January, 1776
"It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws."
-- Dick Cheney
[Richard Bruce Cheney] (1941- ) Vice President of the United States
Source: reacting to the 9-11 attack as reported on PBS "Frontline"
"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
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source: letter to John Taylor, April 15, 1814
"The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy.
The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots."
-- Elbridge Gerry
(1744-1814) of Massachusetts, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Member of the Constitutional Convention
Source: Speech in the Constitutional Convention, 1787
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"To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it."
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