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

— Gaetano Mosca

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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.

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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