Danger Quote by James Madison

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

— Robert Caro

But in Republics there is a stronger vitality, a fiercer hatred, a keener thirst for revenge. The memory of their former freedom will not…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal freedom.”

— Newton Lee

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

— Ainsley Earhardt

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

— Henry David Thoreau

A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against…

— James Madison

There is a danger in democracy itself.

— Danny Kaye

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

— Lee Harvey Oswald

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 republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

— Albert Camus

Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary,…

— Alexander Hamilton