Branches Quote by Diane Watson

You don't know who the next group is that's unpopular. The Bill of Rights isn't for the prom queen. The bill of rights isn't…

— Rand Paul

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

— Ayn Rand

What about the majority? I'm so tired of protecting the rights of the minority. What about the rest of the country?

— Ainsley Earhardt

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

— James Madison

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political…

— Ayn Rand

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

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

— Cornel West

The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in…

— Olympia Snowe

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

— Jacob Zuma

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand…

— Robert Byrd

When an unpopular minority is denied the right to marry, it is indeed the role of the courts to protect the rights of that…

— Margaret Hoover

The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a…

— Thomas Jefferson