It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Thomas Jefferson
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  1. I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over. - Henrik Ibsen

  2. One with the law is a majority. - Calvin Coolidge

  3. A minority may be right a majority is always wrong. - Henrik Ibsen

  4. It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. - Thomas Jefferson

  5. One on God's side is a majority. - Wendell Phillips

More Quotes By Thomas Jefferson
  1. I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power...

  2. Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

  3. Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

  4. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

  5. There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

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