We in America do not have government by the
majority. We have government by the
majority who participate.
View quotes by Thomas JeffersonA man with God is always in the
majority.
View quotes by John Knox'The one thing that doesn't abide by
majority rule is a person's conscience.'
View quotes by Harper LeeOf course liberty is not licence. Liberty in my view is conforming to
majority opinion.
View quotes by Hugh ScanlonThe great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and
majority decisions... but by iron and blood.
View quotes by Otto Von BismarckWhen great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the
majority are wrong. The minority are right. (Speech at his trial for sedition in Cleveland 1918)
View quotes by Eugene Victor DebsSo long as the great
majority of men are not deprived of either property or honour, they are satisfied (Il Principe)
View quotes by Niccolo MachiavelliIt is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a
majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
View quotes by Lord ActonFew men desire liberty: The
majority are satisfied with a just master.
View quotes by SallustThe voice of the
majority is no proof of justice.
View quotes by Johann Friedrich Von Schiller In economics, the
majority is always wrong.
View quotes by GalbraithThere's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, 'Did you get an erection?' If the answer is 'Yes' from a
majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
View quotes by W H AudenThe
majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
View quotes by Honore De BalzacA country can truly call itself sporting when the
majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
View quotes by Baron Pierre De CoubertinIn matters of conscience, the law of the
majority has no place.
View quotes by Mahatma GandhiWhat distinguishes the
majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
View quotes by John Stuart MillLife is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great
majority.
View quotes by Edward YoungA belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the
majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.
View quotes by Aldous HuxleyIn America the
majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
View quotes by TocquevilleIn no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the
majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
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