What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad. — Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine
What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad. — Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine
What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad. — Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine
What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad. — Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine
What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad. — Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine
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What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.

— Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine
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