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First Principles: The Evils We Experience Flow From the Excess of Democracy. The People Do Not Want Virtue, But Are the Dupes of Pretended Patriots
“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)
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Thought For the Day: There Is Not Such A Cradle of Democracy Upon the Earth As the Free Public Library, This Republic of Letters
“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration”. -Andrew Carnegie, industrialist (1835-1919)
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 