"Majority rule" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a long period continue, to rule, is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?—in which majorities decide only those questions ...
— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau
... of course, better to assemble together as far as possible only those who are likely to be congenial and interested in the same subjects; but this is not always possible, and where the company is mixed, the republican spirit should preside, and the "majority rule." ...
— Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society • Sarah Annie Frost |
