A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one…

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Norman Mailer

1964

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Mailer, Norman. The Presidential Papers. Bantam Books, 1964, preface.

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