Quote Originally Posted by Centurion1 View Post
Fine, you want more quotes?
Quotes suck- or at least, the very short ones do. I could selectively quote bits of texts from James Madison to discredit democracy and argue that the USA was never intended to be one. The catch being that in those days "democracy" was understood to mean direct democracy only. When a short quote is both real and not ripped out of context they're often no more than aphorisms that give no insight in the author's reasoning behind it.