Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two be

Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. – E. M. Forster

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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. – James Fenimore Cooper

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We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much. – Robert Bianco

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