Been Quote by Lysander Spooner

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Another way to put it is that the majority must not use its power to trample on minority rights. The Founders were very concerned…

— Dinesh D'Souza

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

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

— Rand Paul

Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution, including James…

— Noam Chomsky

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

— Evan Esar

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Albert Camus

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become…

— Lysander Spooner