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==Aristotle==
<blockquote>μᾶλλον ἀδιάφθορον τὸ πολύ - καθάπερ ὕδωρ τὸ πλεῖον, οὕτω καὶ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν ὀλίγων ἀδιαφθορώτερον.<ref>Aristotle, ''Politics'', 1286a.</ref></blockquote>
Translation:
<blockquote>The multitude is more incorruptible - just as the larger stream of water is purer, so the mass of citizens is less corruptible than the few.<ref>.</ref></blockquote>
==Maximilien Robespierre==
<blockquote>Toute institution qui ne suppose pas le peuple bon, et le magistrat corruptible, est vicieuse.<ref>.</ref></blockquote>
Translation:
<blockquote>Every institution which does not suppose the people good and the magistrate corruptible, is wrong.<ref>.</ref></blockquote>
==Alexis de Tocqueville==
<blockquote>.<ref>.</ref></blockquote>
Translation:
<blockquote>[T]he judicial power [...] slows, it cannot stop the people, because the latter by changing the constitution can always arrive at what they desire.<ref>Alexis de Tocqueville, ''Democracy in America. Historical-Critical Edition of De la démocratie en Amérique'', ed. Eduardo Nolla, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2010, p. 167 (note b).</ref></blockquote>
==Theodore Roosevelt==
<blockquote>[T]he majority of the plain people of the U.S. will, day in and day out, make fewer mistakes in governing themselves than any smaller class or body of men, no matter what their training, will make in trying to govern them.<ref>.</ref></blockquote>
==Eleftherios Venizelos==
<blockquote>[Ε]ίναι αίρεσις να λέτε μέσα εις ένα Πολιτικόν Σώμα ότι ο καθηγητής του Πανεπιστημίου ημπορεί να έχη την εγκυροτέραν γνώμην εις ένα ζήτημα από όλους.<ref>.</ref></blockquote>
Translation:
<blockquote>.<ref>The translation is by the author.</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>[Ε]ίναι αίρεσις να λέτε μέσα εις ένα Πολιτικόν Σώμα ότι ο καθηγητής του Πανεπιστημίου ημπορεί να έχη την εγκυροτέραν γνώμην εις ένα ζήτημα από όλους.<ref>.</ref></blockquote>
Translation:
<blockquote>.<ref>The translation is by the author.</ref></blockquote>
==Υποσημειώσεις==
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[[Category:Works by Jason Koutoufaris-Malandrinos]]
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