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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. -- Jefferson Davis
America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things. -- Kent Conrad
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it seeks to progressively coerce others to fund every social program under the sun via majority rule. -- Dave Brat
In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy. -- Lani Guinier
One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule. -- Noam Chomsky
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority. -- Walter Lippmann
The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule. -- Ilana Mercer
Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example. -- Noam Chomsky
Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. -- Henry David Thoreau
It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong. -- Joseph Campbell
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule." -- Robert W. Welch Jr.
Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy. -- Samuel P. Huntington
By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature... -- Adolf Hitler
"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its aim is the absolute subordination of the individual. -- Emma Goldman
It's precisely because America is not a democracy that we have survived! It's precisely because majority rule does have checks and balances on it. It's precisely because this is a representative republic that we have survived. -- Rush Limbaugh
It's precisely because America is not a democracy that we have survived! It's precisely because majority rule does have checks and balances on it. It's precisely because this is a representative republic that we have survived. -- Rush Limbaugh
The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects... a principle of majority rule in which the leader is degraded to the level of mere executant of other people's wills and opinion. -- Adolf Hitler
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny. -- Ayn Rand
a fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule: the majority is too big to handle itself; it organizes itself into committees ... which in their turn resolve themselves into a committee of one ... -- Mary Parker Follett
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The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom, puts the minority at the mercy of the mob, and works at cross-purposes to the effective use of human energy and individual initiative. -- Henry Grady Weaver
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A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress. -- Tom Udall
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. -- Eugene V. Debs
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries. -- Aleksander Kwasniewski
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. -- Larry Flynt
For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do. -- Ami Bera
The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not. -- Glenn Beck
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
What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them. -- Michael K. Powell
If you're in the minority, every advantage is against you, right? So the only advantage you have against the majority is they're too lazy to know their own rules, right? So it's like a game of poker. -- Kevin McCarthy
Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated. -- John Bright
For those of us who originally disagreed with ObamaCare and now disagree with the majority opinion of the SCOTUS, the challenge remains the same as it would have been had the Court ruled otherwise. We need to elect Mitt Romney and House and Senate majorities that will repeal ObamaCare and replace it with free-market, pro-liberty solutions. -- Bob Beauprez
If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us. -- Jane Rule
Justice, not the majority, should rule. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority -- Mahatma Gandhi
Majority doesn't rule. One person can change the history of the world. -- Paul Mooney
A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. -- Robert Ringer
Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations. -- Mary Parker Follett
The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states. -- Olympia Snowe

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