| AUTHOR: | John Adams (1735–1826) |
| QUOTATION: | Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | JOHN ADAMS, letter to John Taylor, April 15, 1814.—The Works of John Adams, ed. Charles Francis Adams, vol. 6, p. 484 (1851). |
| SUBJECTS: | Democracy |
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Friday, November 28, 2008
Democracy's Limited Shelf Life
John Adams on the limited shelf life of democracies. Maybe our country's Founding Fathers knew a thing or two after all?
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