Majority Decision 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.

An impeachable offense is whatever the majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

I have been a Democrat all my life and accustomed to the rule of the majority. If a majority of this crowd want me to stop speaking, I will stop. If the majority want me to continue, I will speak on regardless of you and your company.

The majority is still at the General's disposal.

… 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 …

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

… by consenting with others to make one body-politic under government, a man puts himself under an obligation to every one of that society to submit to the determination of the majority, and to be concluded by it.

This... [is] a country where the will of the majority is the law, and ought to be the law

The majority prevails in a democracy, eventually.

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

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

The right of the majority is absolute.

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

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

The minority must bow to the majority.

Well then, the ayes have it.

The majority in this country have not seen anything wrong with Zuma. I go with the overwhelming feeling of this country. If the majority say, 'Zuma, do this,' I will do it.

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

The will of the majority will be respected.

I hate when people discuss scorecards in title fights and say you have to decisively beat the champ if you want to win the belt. Not true. You just have to win three of the five rounds, really.

The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.

The minority yields to the majority!

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

We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.

The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account