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Liberty Quotation: Lord Acton on the Tyranny of the Majority

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Sir John Dalberg-Acton“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority; or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.”

Sir John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, The History of Freedom and Other Essays

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