Majority Decisions Quotes

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

The majority prevails in a democracy, eventually.

How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.

Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.

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

The opinion of the strongest is always the best.

A majority is always the best repartee.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

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.

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.

A majority can do anything.