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Walter Lippmann - What we call a democratic society...
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. (Walter Lippmann)

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

Walter Lippmann

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