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American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the... (more Thomas Babington quotes)
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