Quote by Walter Lippmann
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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 private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. – 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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A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. – Henry David Thoreau

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

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A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority. – Leo Baeck

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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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