Abraham Lincoln Quotes, People Quotes, Majority Quotes

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

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You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

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In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.

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One is a majority if he is right.

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When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

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Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.

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Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks (shares') is through an index fund that charges minimal fees. Those following this path are sure to beat the net results (after fees and expenses) of the great majority of investment professionals.

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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

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When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

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The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

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The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.

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No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

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The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

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The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

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God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

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Losing the PR battles, particularly about healthcare, translated into losing his Democratic majorities in Congress, beginning with a Republican landslide in the midterm election of 2010.

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