Brutal Quote by John Adams

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 democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will…

— Edmund Burke

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

— Ray Bradbury

“Yet in his own estimate, one theme in particular dominated all others: the growing tyranny of the majority, the ever-increasing and most formidable barriers…

— Richard D. Heffner

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

— Lord Acton

How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and steadily, in…

— John C. Calhoun

“The tyranny of a majority can be just as cruel as the tyranny of a single dictator, depending on the degree of enlightenment or…

— John Hospers

On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of…

— James Madison

Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Was there ever a time when the majority was right?

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity…

— Abraham Lincoln