Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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White, E. B. "The Meaning of Democracy." The New Yorker, 3 July 1943.
White, E. B. "The Meaning of Democracy." The New Yorker, 3 July 1943.
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