[Roccland]

This post I found on truth dig by a poster named "Skruff"...he was responding to another poster to this quote:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '�')��This once great country is a democracy;”

[OilIsMastery]

Democracy is mob rule.

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/fac ... dera55.htm

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('James Madison', 'N')othing can be more fallacious than to found our political calculations on arithmetical principles. Sixty or seventy men may be more properly trusted with a given degree of power than six or seven. But it does not follow that six or seven hundred would be proportionably a better depositary. And if we carry on the supposition to six or seven thousand, the whole reasoning ought to be reversed. The truth is, that in all cases a certain number at least seems to be necessary to secure the benefits of free consultation and discussion, and to guard against too easy a combination for improper purposes; as, on the other hand, the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.