"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."

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"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."

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"Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men."

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