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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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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. – Walter Lippmann

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Men
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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. – Walter Lippmann

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Knowledge
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. – Walter Lippmann

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Freedom
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

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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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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. – Woodrow Wilson

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