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• The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
• The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed.
• we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.
• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion.
• it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.