“It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.Rate it:(0.00 / 0 votes)

James Fenimore Cooper

United States novelist noted for his stories of American Indians and the frontier life (1789-1851)

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