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
Some have argued that the United States was designed to block majority rule; to be a 'republic, not a democracy.' This is… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things … it's not only worth… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule… — Henry Grady Weaver Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison 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
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
“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 democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population… — Howard Zinn 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
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
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
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