And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, January 31, 2020
Which is why our country is a constitutional republic, not a democracy
Although those that don't understand this, or who lust for raw power, keep trying, mostly successfully, to make the country into a pure democracy.
Look what 'democracizing' the election of US Senators has done. Senators that vote on Party Lines and against the interest of the citizens of their state.
I give you france and greece
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