"The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots."

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Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism-the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, the right of independent thought.

— Margaret Chase Smith