William E. Gladstone Quotes

A majority can do anything.

The minority yields to the majority!

Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.

The majority of people wherever found ought in all questions to govern the minority.

The majority prevails in a democracy, eventually.

Majoritarian is when a majority takes a decision. It is not dictatorship. It is about which issue is major.

As for our majority... one is enough.

We must reflect more on what democracy in the exercise of authority would mean. Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new 'truth' to be 'discovered' by a new majority tomorrow?

Everything, everywhere, shall be decided by majority vote.

The majority voice should be controlling ... after a full, fair, and candid expression.

In a democracy, you must follow the will of the majority, which may be right or wrong, moral or immoral, just or unjust. If that's the ruling of the majority that is what you should follow, respect, and obey — although you may continue to disagree with it.

Consensus is the essence of the legislative process.

We never go against a candidate for one or two votes. You can’t.

Wherever the sentiment of the majority is still genuine and intense, it is found to have abated little of its claim to be obeyed.

The debate is ended. Fifty percent plus one vote is all we need to govern this country.

The will of the majority will be respected.

The minority must bow to the majority.

Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum.

A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision of the majority, be it wise or unwise, until such a time that the majority reaches another decision.

Majority rule is not the norm for solving issues or problems.

Reason will conclude that where multitude is, there is the truth.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.