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Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There… — John Adams

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Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.

John Adams
1814
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Decline of democracyDemocracyPolitical theoryPolitics
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Letter
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1814
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John Adams
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Adams, John. “From John Adams to John Taylor, 17 December 1814,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-6371.
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Adams, John. Letter to John Taylor. 17 Dec. 1814.

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