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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.

Lord Acton

Lord Acton Biography

  Nationality: British
Type: Historian

Born: January 10, 1834
Death: June 19, 1902
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