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The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

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And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably…
It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were…
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.
All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an…
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.
For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on…
There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all…
In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most…
The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.
And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and…
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

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