Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and give…

Thomas Carlyle
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Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero. ✨ Chartism. Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1840.
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