MAJORITY

Related Subjects: Democracy, Election, Politics

1. When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.—EUGENE V. DEBS
   

2. No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.—NORMAN DOUGLAS, South Wind
   

3. The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious: the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.—GLADSTONE

4. Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.—GLADSTONE
   

5. The most dangerous foe to truth and freedom in our midst is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.—IBSEN, An Enemy of the People
   

6. One man with courage makes a majority.—ANDREW JACKSON
   

7. One on God's side is a majority.—WENDELL PHILLIPS
   

8. The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.—HERBERT SPENCER, First Principles
   

9. A majority, with a good cause, are negligent and supine.—SWIFT
   

10. Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one.—THOREAU,The Duty of Civil Disobedience