"[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an
anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes
and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and
every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all
the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty,
wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the
execrable cruelty of one or a very few."
--John Adams,
An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, 1763
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