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Minority Quotes by James Madison
- A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it,…
- I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than…
- By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated…
- At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that…
- The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.
- The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.
- Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to be so constituted…
- In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
- On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of the…
- Power must be in the hands of the wealth of the nation, those who have sympathy for property owners and their rights, and who understand…
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- When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else. — Gwendolyn Brooks
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- Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day… — William Jennings Bryan
- In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. — Edmund Burke
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