Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 225 of the 2021 35th anniversary edition of Steven Rhoads’s superb 1985 book, The Economist’s View of the World: And the Quest for Well-Being [footnotes deleted; link added]:

James Madison and Alexander Hamilton believed that the true friend of democracy would support representative institutions that could preserve democracy by guarding against its excesses. Lincoln, who saw and condemned “wild and furious passions” and “worse than savage mobs,” agreed completely.

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