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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of read more
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans
Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably
tell you.
Ask him, read more
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably
tell you.
Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing read more
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than
Christianity has made them good.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than
Christianity has made them good.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to read more
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right