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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, 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.

Source: The Indispensable Opposition, in Atlantic Monthly (Boston, 1939; repr. in The Essential Lippman, pt. 6, sct. 2, 1982).
-- Walter Lippmann, (Sep 23 1889-1974), US journalist, editor, author; He won Pulitzers 1958, 1962, for his syndicated column, Today and Tomorrow.

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