And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.
And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.
In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.
The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.
And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.
Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
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