Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.

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In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

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Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

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The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

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The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

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The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.

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For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

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The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.

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The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.

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It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

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