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  • Majorities, of course, start with minorities. -- Robert Moses
  • Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right. -- George Saintsbury
  • Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice. -- Lysander Spooner
  • There is a qualitative difference between being a minority and being a majority. Majorities are stronger under psychological pressure because numbers count. But only if they are aware of it. -- Peter Abrahams
  • Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions. -- Alan Barth
  • In a democracy, thumping majorities prevail. -- Ilana Mercer
  • Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Only majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society. -- David Barton
  • Acting alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change. -- Hillary Clinton
  • Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas. -- William E. Gladstone
  • The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings. -- Arthur Balfour
  • There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country. -- Jack Balkin
  • Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots. -- John Adams
  • In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector. -- Geoff Mulgan
  • This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith. -- R.J. Rushdoony
  • Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. -- Robert Bork
  • One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. -- James K. Polk
  • Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress. -- Thomas E. Mann
  • You know, a lot of the people that are running. We want to go in; we want to have majorities. It's very important. -- Donald Trump
  • The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities. -- Robert H. Jackson
  • They're still a subject beholden to special interests, but at least they have a national constituency. At least they have to think about national majorities. -- Mark Shields
  • It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army. -- Wilhelm II
  • The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States. -- Adolf Hitler
  • Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion. -- Ludwig Lewisohn
  • I mean, we've had Republican majorities in the House and even the Senate for a couple of years. How has that worked out, stopping [Barack] Obama, hmm? Seriously. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • I mean, we've had Republican majorities in the House and even the Senate for a couple of years. How has that worked out, stopping [Barack] Obama, hmm? Seriously. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter. -- Bob Beauprez
  • Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world. -- Cyril Connolly
  • By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion. -- John Acton
  • The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average. -- Charles A. Murray
  • The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong. -- Herbert Spencer
  • By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion. -- Lord Acton
  • Her [Jurdge Sandra Day O'Connor] judgment has also been critical in protecting our environmental rights. She joined in 5-4 majorities affirming reproductive freedom and religious freedom and the Voting Rights Act. -- Patrick Leahy
  • To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them. -- Lysander Spooner
  • Democracy is for infidels. A real Muslim is not a democrat because he doesn't care about the opinions of majorities and minorities don't interest him. He is only interested in what Islam says. -- Abdul Sattar Abu Risha
  • I regret that we weren't able to reform Social Security. The fact that we weren't able to when we had majorities in the House and the Senate I think reflected poorly on our political party. -- George W. Bush
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