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Tag Archives: Democracy
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Plutarch’s Lives – Pericles
As discussed previously, Plutarch’s Parallel Lives is an important work not only because of the insights provided with respect to subject of the various persons who are discussed in the biographies but also due to the information provided about the times … Continue reading
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First Principles: Democracy Leads To Tyranny
“It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed … Continue reading
First Principles: A Pure Democracy Is Often the Most Tyrannical and Rash
“A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, it is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.” – Noah Webster, in The Original Blue Back Speller (an instruction book … Continue reading
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