[Ads-l] QOTY

[Jonathan Lighter]

OK so TY is 1814, but geologically speaking, we're still there.

John Adams to John Taylor, Dec. 17, 1814:

"Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and murders
itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide."

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-6371

JL
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