(3711 quotes found)
“When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble”
Sam Rayburn
“In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.”
Jesse Jackson
“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
“So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“He has gone over to the majority.”
Petronius
“The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected you, are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction.”
Michael Moore
“We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital”
Horace Mann
“That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world”
John Adams
“The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.”
John C. Calhoun
“You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.”
W. Clement Stone
