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All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Birth, Tradition
Orthodoxy ch. 4 (1908)
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.