Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.
I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.
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