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Thomas Jefferson Quotes: A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
         

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.


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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
         



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