The concept of democracy is a sophisticated one that has come to us through the sacrifices of many thoughtful thinkers, some of whom paid with their lives — the ultimate private property — for their temerity in advancing their views.
The initial enthusiasm with which thinkers such as Edmund Burke welcomed the events in France in 1789 and the cry of “liberty, equality and fraternity” was quickly doused by the events in France and Santo Domingo, now Haiti...
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