Monday, December 26, 2022
Vox Populi
Theodore Roosevelt, letter to Anna Roosevelt (June 8, 1884):
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It is by no means the first time that a vast popular majority has been on the side of wrong. It may be that "the voice of the people is the voice of God" in fifty-one cases out of a hundred; but in the remaining forty-nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, or, what is still worse, the voice of a fool.Statue of Theodore Roosevelt, by James Earle Fraser, in front of the American Museum of Natural History, before it was removed on January 20, 2022:
