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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
 
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
 
We argue so much today about 'democracy' versus 'totalitarianism'. Democracy presupposes intelligence of the masses;* totalitarianism does not to the same degree. But a 'democracy' without intelligence of the masses under modern conditions can be a worse human mess than any dictatorship could be.
 
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
 
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
 
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
 
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
 
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