No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. This-that is not democracy; that is tyranny, even if occasionally you sprinkle an election in there. (Barack Obama)

No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. This-that is not democracy; that is tyranny, even if occasionally you sprinkle an election in there.

Barack Obama

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