John Adams on the limited shelf life of democracies. Maybe our country’s Founding Fathers knew a thing or two after all?
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John Adams (1735–1826) |
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. |
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JOHN ADAMS, letter to John Taylor, April 15, 1814.—The Works of John Adams, ed. Charles Francis Adams, vol. 6, p. 484 (1851). |
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SUBJECTS: |
Democracy |
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