Is there anything else you need from me?" Ranger asked. "Not right now. " "There will come a time," Ranger said. "Let me know when. " And he disconnected. I opened the freezer and stuck my head in to cool off. If there'd been any more innuendo in that conversation, I could have fried an egg on my forehead.
Edmund Burke
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. . . and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.
