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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Freedom, Democracies Have, Order
"Tremendous Trifles" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ch. 12, (p. 63), 1955.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.