Community Quote by Learned Hand

“We are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as if it…

— Edmund Burke

By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins…

— Adolf Hitler

There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the…

— Will Durant

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere…

— Thomas Jefferson

In order, in order to enforce you can't force people to act right toward each other. You can't force, you cannot legislate heart, conditions…

— Malcolm X

If the minority, and a small one too, is suffered to dictate to the majority, after measures have undergone the most solemn discussions by…

— George Washington

“The development of specific mechanisms of social controls also becomes necessary with the historicization and objectivation of institutions. Deviance from the institutionally “programmed” courses…

— Peter L. Berger

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

Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of…

— Alexander Hamilton