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Quotes from the Founders for this Election Season

Quotes from the Founders for this Election Season

Chris Meisenzahl reminds us of these perspicacious statements from the founding fathers in the comments section of my recent post:

"Democracy is the most vile form of government...democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." - James Madison

"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide." - John Adams

If Mr. Madison and Mr. Adams were alive today they certainly would each have a quote endorsing Hans-Herman Hoppe's Democracy: The God That Failed on the back cover of the book.

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