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Who Said It 10/23

History will teach us …that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.

 

“Publius” (Alexander Hamilton) in Federalist Number One published October 27, 1787

Posted on October 23, 2012

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