“History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.”
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We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
