Beware ‘pure democracy’

An 1833 portrait of Noah Webster by James Herring.

Scrawl on concrete wall with the anarchist “A" symbol in Munich in 2022.

“In democracy…there are commonly tumults and disorders…. Therefore a pure democracy is generally a very bad government. It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.’’

— Noah Webster (1758-1843), Connecticut-based lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer and editor. Think Webster’s Dictionary