Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 39: Silent Majority

[Fred Shapiro]

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silent majority (OED 1874, political usage 1955)

1870 _Economist_ 19 Nov.  The silent majority which so seldom appears at
the polls.

Fred Shapiro


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