Excellent quote. Thankfully the US is a REPRESENTATIONAL REPUBLIC and not a Democracy.. even though most people have been miseducated by socialists. As for snopes calling the quote questionable, Lord Woodhouselee's manuscripts, collections, notes, etc. make up many volumes.. and no one said the quote came from a book, only that it came from his discourse on the Fall of the Athenian Republic. Why would you presume to find them at the University of Michigan or The Library of Congress? Try the University of Edinburgh Library or the National Library of Scotland.. lazy people..