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Invariably underlying all such tendencies is the concept that was so aptly phrased by Rousseau, that man is good by nature but spoiled by society and civilization.

— Gaetano Mosca

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When we say that the voters “choose” their representative, we are using a language that is very inexact.

So the state crashes at the first appreciable shock from the outside foe.

I am opposed to pure democracy precisely because I am a liberal.

If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable.

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