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[escobert]

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

"When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny."

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic."

When asked what type of government the American people were going to participate in, by a well-meaning woman, a stern Benjamin Franklin warned that our new government was going to be “A republic, madam, if you can keep it.“

Too long to quote, one of my favorite speeches of all time.