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• One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.
  -- Thomas B. Reed...
• It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority.
  Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people....
• The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.
  -- Eugene V. Debs, US labor leader. (Note: Debs received one million votes in 1920 as candidate for US President, while serving a 10-year jail sentence for having said in June 1918...
• A statesman is a successful politician who is dead. -- Thomas B. Reed (1839-1902)
• A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
  It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse form the public treasury....
• God has always been hard on the poor.
• Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
  -- George Henry Lewe...