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Beware the tyranny of the minority. - Proverb

Beware the tyranny of the minority. – Proverb

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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority. – Walter Lippmann

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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. – Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton

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How a minority, reaching majority, seizing authority, hates a minority! – Leonard H. Robbins

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