#majority

That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#freedom #irate #keen #majority #men

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. ↗

— Lord Acton

#carrying #democracy #elections #evil #force

I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority... let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down! ↗

— John Aspinall

#billion #catastrophe #day #down #earth

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#circumstances #constitute #decree #fate #fortuitous

My sense is that the majority of Conservatives share my reservations about how we got into Iraq. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#conservatives #got #how #into #iraq

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. ↗

— Jefferson Davis

#current events #did #events #ever #history

To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#economy #eu #european #european countries #life

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen. ↗

— Glynis Johns

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I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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