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Majority Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things.…
- What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we…
- In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have…
- The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil…
- What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a…
- We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support…
- The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.
More Majority Quotes
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable.… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of… — Marcus Aurelius
- The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that… — Lord Acton
- The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. — Honore de Balzac
- It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the… — Samuel Adams
- When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional… — Bob Beauprez