Government
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The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place when all the stars are rotating about it.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
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