Democracy Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for…

— Walter Lippmann

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose…

— Anonymous

When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.

— Charles Kennedy

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

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course,…

— Joseph Campbell

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

— Anonymous

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should…

— Walter Lippmann

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a…

— Mary Parker Follett

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

— Evan Esar

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Some have argued that the United States was designed to block majority rule; to be a 'republic, not a democracy.' This is ahistorical nonsense.

— Mehdi Hasan