"I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate."
--Romans 7:15 (RSV)
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"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty."
-- Fisher Ames (speech in the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 15 January 1788)
Reference: The Works of Fisher Ames, W.B. Allen, ed., vol. 1 (546)
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