Change Quote by Abraham Lincoln

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity…

— 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

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

— James Madison

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

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

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

“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

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

— Alf Landon

True democracy is allowing freedom for others even though it reduces ones own.

— Robert D Dangoor

“Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or the barricades, but rather evolves…

— Tom Robbins

The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as…

— Alexander Hamilton