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“Justice, ’tho it may be an inconvenient restraint on our power, while we are strong, is the only rampart behind which we can find protection when we become weak,”
Robert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.
John Jay • The Federalist Papers (AmazonClassics Edition)
to the end that the office might be powerful and the officer insignificant,
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
“It is one of the evils of democratical governments that the people, not always seeing & frequently mislead, must often feel before they can act right—but then evils of this nature seldom fail to work their own cure. It is to be lamented nevertheless that the remedies are so slow, & that those who may wish to apply them seasonably are not a
... See moreThe more precarious and the more perilous the position of a people becomes, the more absolute is the want of a fixed and consistent external policy, and the more dangerous does the elective system of the Chief Magistrate become.