Edmund Burke quote: In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable...

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

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Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.186

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