Anarchist Quote by Lysander Spooner

After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a…

— Henry David Thoreau

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property…

— William H. Seward

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

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“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

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

— Thomas Jefferson

The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which…

— Abraham Lincoln

By nature, every individual has the right to govern himself; and governments, whether founded on majorities or minorities, must derive their right from the…

— John C. Calhoun

From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have…

— Charles Edward Merriam

How does a weaker minority dominate a physically superior majority? In my research I learned that this is accomplished by destroying the slave’s mind.…

— Kyle Baker