John McCain Quotes

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.

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

… though the majority might be temporarily wrong, in the end, a majority that remained a majority over a period of years was usually right, and in our country, at least, we have been governed by the will of the majority. It has not meant, nor I surmise, does it mean in the present, the destruction of minorities …

The will of the majority will be respected.

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?

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.

A majority can do anything.

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

A democratic government must always be left free to be operated upon by the will of the majority of the time being. All that the government of the day can do is to ascertain what now appears to be the best principle.

It is when it is contended that in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

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

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.

Logically, in a society ostensibly grounded on representative government, it would seem reasonable that a majority of the people in a State would elect a majority of that State’s legislators.

'Democratic' in its original meaning refers to unlimited majority rule....a social system in which one's work, one's property, one's mind, and one's life are at the mercy of any gang that may muster the vote of a majority at any moment for any purpose

Neither current events nor history shows that the majority rules, or ever did rule.

In the United States, where the numerical majority have long been in full possession of collective despotism, they would probably be as unwilling to part with it as a single despot or an aristocracy.

Control by the majority. Everything else about our government is appendage, it is ornamentation.

The ballot box is a license to govern, not a mandate to rule.

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

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

The right of the majority is absolute.

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

The minority yields to the majority!

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.