Liberal Democracies

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“A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)

“There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.”
—Demosthenes (c. 384–322 B.C.)