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Sometimes the usurpation of the executive power, sometimes the fickleness and unbridled license of the people, had brought popular governments to destruction.
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Adlai Stevenson
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He identifies key threats to popular governments, highlighting the need for vigilance.
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My countrymen, the little settlement planted just three centuries ago near the spot upon which we have to-day assembled has under divine guidance grown into a mighty nation.
Irishmen, in common with liberty-loving men everywhere, looked with abhorrence upon the attempt of a great European power to establish monarchy upon the ruins of republics.
The spirit of the mob is in deadly antagonism to all constituted authority.
Looking back through the long vista of years, it is my honest belief that such singing as his, at home or abroad, I have never heard.