Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 50 of the late Arthur Seldon‘s 1998 monograph, The Dilemma of Democracy:

The leading responsibility for the diminishing respect for democracy and observance of its governing processes is that of the politicians. Even when well-meaning they are misled by the political scientists who have over-estimated the beneficence and intention of democratic government. Political leaders have been interminably invited or incited to expand government, its powers, functions and services, beyond their necessity, beyond their innate low quality, and, not least for the lowest-income families, beyond their sheer cost.