“People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.”
Walter H. Judd
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”
Thomas Jefferson
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
Oscar Wilde
“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people”
Abraham Lincoln
“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”
Aristotle
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”
