How Democracies Die - Gettysburg Connection

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How Democracies Die - Gettysburg Connection

It’s always darkest just before ... it turns totally black. We can’t say we weren’t warned. John Adams wrote, "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” In his Farewell Address in 1796, Washington said, "The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual…