Quote by Robert La Folette

The supreme issue, involving all others, is the encroachment of the powerful few upon the rights of the many.

— Robert La Folette

Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.

— Georg Buchner

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

— Adam Ferguson

“Let us be clear at the outset that the liberty of individuals to carry on their business should not be abrogated unless the larger…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the…

— Voltaire

“The rights of others often begins with the fight for justice of one.”

— Judith K. Witherow

And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves,…

— Auberon Herbert

The Constitution has to be supreme.

— Nawaz Sharif

The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or…

— Edmund Burke

All peoples must be respected, and they must all be granted the same rights.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The people are sovereign and the Constitution is supreme. There is no one greater than the people.

— Franco Debono