I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.
Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.
All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
A change of regulations concerning property without a corresponding change of government is not a revolution, but a reform.