Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are t

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. – Aristotle

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It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. – Bertrand Russell, Principles of Social Reconstruction, 1917

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