Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too serious…

C. S. Lewis
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Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1987). Present Concerns, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1987). Present Concerns, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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