“Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial règime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic; there is, as we have said, little doubt that the American Congress and the French Chambre have a power over their respective nations which would rouse the envy of a Louis XIV or a George III were they alive today”

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Pg 88
Liberty or Equality (40th anniversary edition) (1993)

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