Politics and Society
After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
-H.D. Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"

I re-read Civil Disobedience earlier this week. These days it seems more important than when I read it before.