Our Forefathers' Warnings: January 6, 2021, Foretold in 1796!

The Constitution is likely to be well administered for a course of years and can only end in despotism as other forms have done before when the people have become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.

--Benjamin Franklin (September 17, 1787)

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension...is itself a frightful despotism. The disorders and miseries which result, gradually incline the min...