Victor Considerant
1808-1893
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Our era, as our constitution, is democratic. In other words, that the language of Democracy is today destined to represent the passions, the principles, and the rights now universally accepted in theory, for which our fathers triumphantly endured the horrors of the first Revolution.
(Manifesto of Democracy, 1847)
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Manifesto of Democracy, 1847