Word: macaulay
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...Macaulay: "I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both...
Roosevelt: "Macaulay condemned the American scheme of government based on popular majority. In this country 80 years later his successors do not dare openly to condemn (it) . . . for they profess adherence to the form. . . . They love to intone praise of liberty, but in their hearts they distrust majority rule because an enlightened majority will not tolerate the abuses which a privileged minority would seek to foist upon the people as a whole...
...Macaulay: "In bad years there is plenty of grumbling here and sometimes a little rioting. But it matters little. For here the sufferers are not the rulers. The supreme power is in the hands of a class, numerous indeed, but select . . . an educated class . . . deeply interested in the security of property and maintenance of order. Accordingly, the malcontents are firmly yet gently restrained...
Roosevelt: "Almost, methinks, I am reading not from Macaulay but from a resolution of the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Liberty League, the National Association of Manufacturers or the editorials written at the behest of certain well known newspaper proprietors...
...Macaulay: ". . . There is nothing to stop you. Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. . . . Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your Republic will be . . . laid waste by barbarians in the 20th Century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth...