Majority Quotes
1675 quotes by 1208 authors
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The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some…
— Albert Gallatin
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What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final…
— Ann Landers
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In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Now these fellows in Washington wouldn't be so serious and particular if they only had to vote on what they thought was good for the…
— Will Rogers
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The great silent majority.
— Richard M. Nixon
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These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last…
— Benjamin Cardozo
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My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a…
— William Osler
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.
— Sam Rayburn
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They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it…
— Will Rogers
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The majority of times when a man thinks he has been the instigator, which men like to think, in sexual and romantic experiences, that has…
— Frederick Lenz
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The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things…
— George Will
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...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not, but one has…
— David Mermin
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The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does…
— Barack Obama
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I find that the majority of the year, I don't spend acting. I spend it either writing or editing or producing, or putting things together.…
— Charlie Day
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The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them.
— David Hare
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That's actually pretty tame, but the fact that it was coming from this unexpected adorable little 17-year-old, I thought I'd be getting a letter about…
— Lzzy Hale
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Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of all these people…
— William O'Neil
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The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply, but being emotionally…
— William O'Neil
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