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James Fenimore Cooper
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It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. |
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It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. |
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The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. |
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The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. |
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal. |
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal. |
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