I just signed up for The Federalist‘s Founders’ Quote of the Day. Today’s is a prophetic quote from John Adams.

Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy
that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no
man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure,
and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of
subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities,
all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton
pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one
or a very few.

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