Majority quotes

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

As for our majority… one is enough.

The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.