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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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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. – Walter Lippmann

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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. – Walter Lippmann

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Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. – Walter Lippmann

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A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. – Henrik Ibsen

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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. – Norman Mailer

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Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. – B. R. Ambedkar

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