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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the s , of a river; , the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action , a power that goes to making the future.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.