In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it; but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility.
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