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  • Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.

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    "The Scholar in a Republic" by Wendell Phillips. Reported in Carlos Martyn and Wendell Phillips, "The Agitator" (1890), p. 581, June 30, 1881.

  • Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

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    "Chartism". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1840.

  • I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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  • Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

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    Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Latter-day Pamphlets”, p.18, London : Chapman and Hall

  • Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

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    Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.185
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Thomas Carlyle

  • Born: December 4, 1795
  • Died: February 5, 1881
  • Occupation: Philosopher
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