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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more… — E.B. White

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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

E.B. White
1944
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1944
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White, E. B. "The Meaning of Democracy." The New Yorker, 3 July 1943.

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