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- Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of… — George Washington
- Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place… — Thomas Jefferson
- Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to… — Henry James Sumner Maine
- No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can… — John Dewey
- In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the… — Edward Abbey
- Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism… — Aristotle