{"id":116,"date":"2016-03-19T23:46:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T23:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deepredpond.org\/?p=116"},"modified":"2016-03-19T23:48:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T23:48:32","slug":"quotes-dead-white-males","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deepredpond.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/19\/quotes-dead-white-males\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes from dead white males."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Remember, democracy never last long. it soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that didn&#8217;t commit suicide. It is vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious then aristocracy or monarchy. It&#8217;s not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of government. and when unchecked, produce the same effect of fraud, violence, and cruelty.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John Adams, letter to John Taylor 1814<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality.\u00a0 but notice the difference: while democracy seek equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.\u00a0&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alex de Tocqueville<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Remember, democracy never last long. it soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that didn&#8217;t commit suicide. It is vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious then aristocracy or monarchy. It&#8217;s not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. 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