"I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilisation, or both."
— Democracy

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, letter to Henry Stephens Randall (May 23, 1857), The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay (1981) edited by Thomas Pinney, Vol. 6, p. 94