E.B. White’s definition of democracy
I’ve read a lot of E.B. White, but I’d never before come across his interesting definition of democracy, written in June 1943: Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
I've read a lot of E.B. White, but I'd never before come across his interesting definition of democracy, written in June 1943:
I’ve read a lot of E.B. White, but I’d never before come across his interesting definition of democracy, written in June 1943:
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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