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“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections”
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton quotes (English Historian, 1834-1902)
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“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.”
Walter H. Judd quotes
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“In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority”
Edmund Burke quotes (British Statesman and Philosopher, 1729-1797)
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“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group,”
Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes (American 32nd US President (1933-45), cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president. 1882-1945)
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“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”
Winston Churchill quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)
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“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.”
Plato quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher He was the world's most influential philosopher. 428 BC-348 BC)
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“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”
Aristotle quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC)
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“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963)
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“Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for”
Adlai E. Stevenson quotes (American Politician. Governor of Illinois (1949-53) and Ambassador to the United Nations (1961-65). 1900-1965)
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