Anarchy Quote by Abraham Lincoln

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the…

— Abraham Lincoln

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the…

— Abraham Lincoln

In a democracy sovereignity is vested in a majority; and a majority is not only, at best, an ignorant, foolish and emotional mob, but…

— Jean Bodin

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

— Alf Landon

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also…

— Margaret Thatcher

Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited…

— Walter Lippmann

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them…

— William Howard Taft

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the…

— Eric Hoffer

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

— Albert Camus

The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain…

— George Will

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose.…

— Abraham Lincoln

“The national unity of a free people depends upon a sufficiently even balance of political power to make it impracticable for the administration to…

— Walter Lippmann