Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“The theory I have in mind is one which does not proceed, as it were, from a doctrine of the intrinsic goodness… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule:… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Democracy meant all men were to be heard, and a decision was taken together as a people. Majority rule was a foreign… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest… — William J. Murray Copy Share Image
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects... a principle of majority rule in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even… — William J. Murray Copy Share Image
“Majority rule cannot always be called fairness. Regardless of their depth of feeling, each person is impartially given the right to a… — Kouji Ouji Copy Share Image
The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the… — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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