I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education. (Thomas Jefferson)
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. (Thomas Jefferson)
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. (Thomas Jefferson)
Democracy: (from the Greek demos, "people", and kratos, "rule") a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them or vote directly on issues of governance.
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