Poland Quotes

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.

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

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

The minority yields to the majority!

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Democracy means decision by those concerned.

That a majority of people can vote against a government, and yet that government still remains in power does not raise confidence in our democracy.

Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.

We are a democracy and I will go with the 51 percent wherever that leads us.

We'll vote when we have the votes.

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

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.

When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

As for our majority... one is enough.

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.

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

Polling can undermine the ability of officials to lay out, debate, analyze, and implement their plans. By turning to instant [electronic] polls we would eliminate the captain and the officers and leave every shipboard decision to the passengers.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the most ignorant part of society.

If the debates had been public, no constitution would have ever been adopted.

A democratic state must feel before it can see; that is what makes it slow to act. But the people, at last, will be right.