Democracy Quote by Thomas Jefferson

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

— Thomas Jefferson

The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average.

— Jeff Cooper

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

— E. B. White

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

— Albert Camus

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

— Anonymous

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

— Lee Harvey Oswald

Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically…

— Nelson Mandela

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

— Robert Caro

Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule;…

— William Allen White

In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.

— Barack Obama

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

— Jacob Zuma