Why do you follow Stannis when he chopped off your fingers, bro?
"Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either."
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide".
For the debate on the end of democracy.
What they thought about these two statements from 1814, that were written by John Adams in a letter to John Taylor:
Never heard that before. That is interesting, but I guess the experience with democracy up to that point was not successful. Switzerland was already democratic and peaceful, but it is a small country and naturally isolated.
America is the best example of democracy now, and it has endured and prospered.