Re: The Athenians

["Don E. Z'Boray" <zboray@newbie.net>]

Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> 
> I got a message from Heidi, who is looking for the source of this quote:
> 
>         "Had every Athenian been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly
>         would still have been a mob."
> 
> Anyone who knows?
> 
	James Madison, "The Federalist", Number 55 (paragraph 4):
	"In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters
	 composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from
	 reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every
	 Athenian assembly would still have been a mob." 
	ref: http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/federalist/feder55.html
atbty,
-- don  ;-)
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