Majority Rule Quotes

"The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience." "In Republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority" "Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few" "In our governments, the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents." "In a republic this rule ought to be observed, that the majority should not have the predominant power."