Quotes on Minority Government

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

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.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.