Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. (Agnes Repplier)

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

Agnes Repplier

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