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 The Constitution
(Article IV, Section 4)
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.
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Mahatma Gandhi
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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Thomas Jefferson
(3rd President of U.S.A.)
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
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Steven LaTulippe
A democracy is rule by the majority; a republic is the rule of law. This is a very critical distinction.
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John Marshall
(4th Supreme Court Chief Justice)
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.
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Joseph Stalin
(Soviet Union Dictator, 1924-53)
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
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Lord Action
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
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Alan Coren
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
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Michael Cloud
Individual liberty and personal responsibility are two sides of the same gold coin. We cannot surrender one side of the coin without surrendering the other.
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George Pataki
(Govenor, R-NY, 1995-2006)
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
(32nd President of U.S.A.)
The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical [hostile] to the dictates of sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America. Work must be found for able-bodied but destitute workers. The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief.
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Thomas Jefferson
(3rd President of U.S.A.)
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
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James Madison
(4th President of U.S.A.)
Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention ... and have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.
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Plato
(Classical Greek philosopher)
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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Karl Marx
(author, Communist Manifesto)
Democracy is the road to socialism.
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Winston Churchill
(British Prime Minister, 1940-45)
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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H.L. Mencken
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right... The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.
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Gore Vidal
A democracy is a place where numerous elections are held, at great cost, without issues, and with interchangeable candidates.
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James Bovard
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
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[DEMOCRACY]:
1) A common system of government directed by the whims of mobs and marked by a low tolerance for basic human rights and common sense; primarily used to incrementally transition a government ruled by constitutional or common law (a Republic) to a government ruled by the political law of an elite few (an Oligarchy).
2) A political system where individuals get one vote - the ballot box. Considering that a) most elections are stolen and b) the mainstream media, whose parent corporations financially contribute directly to the campaigns of the major party political system and exclude coverage of ALL viable candidates (Libertarians, Greens, Independents, Constitutionalists, Socialists, etc), the individual is mostly irrelevant.
3) It's two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner. Tonight’s menu is obvious and leftovers provide for tomorrow’s needs. Thereafter, what can the ravenous wolves do but eat each other.
4) Jeopardy answer: What is - How our country fell from liberty’s wings of justice and peace into the volcano of preferential treatment and war?
[LORD THOMAS MacCAULEY]:
 “A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority (who vote) will vote for those candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest democratic nations has been 200 years. Each has been through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith.
From faith to great courage.
From courage to liberty.
From liberty to abundance.
From abundance to complacency.
From complacency to selfishness.
From selfishness to apathy.
From apathy to dependency.
And from dependency back again into bondage.”
- May 23, 1857
[STG RUTHERS]:
What person who aspires to achieve dignity, self-worth and productivity, as all individuals should, can even do so when each person in this country has 535 parents: 435 in the House, and for good measure, another 100 in the Senate.
How safe do you think you’d be on the road if the car next to you had 535 drivers at the wheel? - Not safe at all!
We need the 535 to STOP dictating our lives by the process of assuming our responsibilities and START protecting our rights, as their sworn oath to defend the Constitution requires.
Paraphrasing a classic Michael Cloud speech:
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Government has NOT grown monstrous by taking our rights, but has grown monstrous by assuming our responsibilities. The politicians didn’t say, “Vote for me, I will take away your rights.” They said, “Vote for me, I will take away your responsibilities - I will raise/teach your kids, I will save for your retirement, I will be charitable on your behalf, etc.”
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Consequences teach us. Wisdom and virtue reward us. Recklessness and vice punish us. Personal responsibility is being liable, accountable, as the person effecting the consequence; essentially, it connects our actions to consequences. At gain, we are moral. At peril, we are immoral. Democracy allowed our votes to cheat nature's law of 'cause and effect', by giving our responsibilities to the government disconnecting our actions from their consequences. Government responsibility has taken from the productive to reward bad behavior and laziness, which over time has made us passive, weak, dependent, and finally obedient because we think we have NO choice.
But I say we do have a choice... To get our rights back, we must take our responsibilities back. The sacred golden cow called Democracy* could be slaughtered today and the Bill of Rights and Constitution esteemed tomorrow if we recognize our moral decline was our own fault. We believed the lie - "you can have freedom without responsibility, just vote for me."
A moral change will never happen if everyone in this country continues to bow down five times a day on a rug that faces Washington D.C. praying to their Almighty G:
“The Government saves us all. The Government saves us all… from personal responsibility. Praise my lord, my savior, my Government. Amen!”
( * the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights make no mention of Democracy. NONE!)
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[FLIXON]:
Overview of America
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