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The Higher Liberty
by Gregory HHC, d
Minister of His Holy Church
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Democracy
Somewhere along the way, some
people began to believe that we collectively had the right to decide
what was good and evil, not only for ourselves, but for our neighbor,
as well. We called it democracy.
In early America, the success
and prosperity of the people was, no doubt in part, due to the fact
that “The churches in New England were so many nurseries of
freemen, training them in the principles of self-government and
accustoming them to the feeling of independence. In these petty
organizations were developed, in practice, the principles of
individual and national freedom. Each church was a republic in
embryo. The fiction became a fact, the abstraction a reality...”
Americans have moved from a
virtuous self reliant republic to covetous “democracy in a
republic.” This process is done more by contract, application, and
participation than by vote.
The people have become a nation
of consumers, who willing bite their neighbor for personal security.
People have fallen in love with the benefits offered by democracy.
James Madison, 1787, stated in
the Federalist Paper #10 that “Democracy is the most vile form
of government ... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence
and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal
security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short
in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
Fisher Ames, an author of the First Amendment, said, “A
democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own
destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in
their way.” In 1815 John Adams: “Democracy... while it
lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember,
democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders
itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
John Marshall, longest serving Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,
“Between a balanced Republic and a democracy, the difference is
like that between order and chaos.” Even Alexander Hamilton
said “Real Liberty is never found in despotism or in the
extremes of Democracy.” Benjamin
Franklin warned emphatically that “When the people find they
can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
He understood that a “Democracy is two wolves and
a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb
contesting the vote!”
Long before these men voiced
their objections Plato postulated “Dictatorship
naturally arises out of democracy...” And long after
Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson said “Democracy is morose, and runs
to anarchy.” Winston Churchill wrote that: “Socialism is
a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of
envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” He
went on to say that “The best argument against democracy is a
five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
More recently historian
and Congressman Ron Paul said:
“Our country’s founders
cherished liberty, not democracy.”
I
did find that Karl Marx, who was an advocate of communism, claimed
“Democracy is the road to socialism.”
“It
is difficult to understand, how any one who has read the proceedings
of the Federal Convention can believe that it was the intention of
that body to establish a democratic government.”
“Accustomed to trampling
on the rights of others you have lost the genius of your own
independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant
who rises among you.”
“Under
a democratic government, the citizens exercise the powers of
sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards
lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.”
“Thou
shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak
in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]:” Exodus
23:2
“ A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.”
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