Excerpt from The Abolition of the Presidency
"Unsettled questions have no pity for the repose of nations." James A. Garfield.
"A patriot cannot serve his country better than to do his best to purge it of error, and to make its influence an unmixed benefit to mankind." M.D. Conway.
"Your President may easily become a King." Patrick Henry.
"I am fond enough of Kings, as soon as they have a canopy of stone over them." Horace Walpole.
"Under the shell there was an animal and behind the document there was a man." Taine.
"Under no form of government is it so dangerous to erect a political idol, as in a democratic republic, for once erected it is the political sin against the Holy Spirit to lay hands upon it." Von Holst.
"And I confess that I feel humiliated at the truth, which cannot be disguised, that though we live under the form of a republic, we are in fact under the rule of a single man." Life and Letters of J. Story.
"The evil has gone on until the Chief Magistrate has come to regard constitutional opposition to any scheme of his own in the light of a rebellion or a crime which the executive must punish. This is at present, in my opinion, our most serious national danger." Charles Sumner.
"If such a President has, in addition, large privileges in virtue of his office, he easily degenerates into what, among German Republicans, is called "ein Konig im Frack" - a king in a dress coat." Karl Blind.
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