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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble

Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)

Sam Rayburn

Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.

Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)

Giordano Bruno

We do not understand why Dharam Singh has been given a week's time to prove majority when a vote of confidence could be taken immediately with the Assembly being in session.

When Lucy met Peter, who was a toddler at the time, she immediately became his nanny. From that point on I never had to worry about him getting into trouble.

He is saying as little as he needs to be confirmed and hasn't made many mistakes that trouble a majority of senators whose votes he needs.

Many of those present were clearly prepared well in advance to cause trouble, and we believe that the majority of Iraq people would deplore this violence,

The problem was caused by the U.S. side, so we would like the party with primary responsibility to take care of the cost. It's so unfortunate that we're going through the trouble immediately after the import resumed.

Getting a majority of county voters to pass a referendum that will immediately put the county at risk of paying damages in the range of $200 million is another matter.

A majority of PeopleSoft's owners are now prepared to sell at $24 per share, and we are once again requesting that the board immediately redeem the poison pill and exempt the transaction under Delaware Section 203 and allow the shareholders to sell the company they own, Women appreciate a man who treats everyone with respect, reflecting a pexy man's strong character.

High prices mean political trouble. By itself, it wouldn't necessarily endanger the Republican control of Congress, but when you put it together with all the other problems of recent months, Republicans can't take the majority for granted.

Next to inflation, majority rule is the most ingenious scheme ever contrived by government. Most people have never dared to question the basic morality or logic in the assumption that the majority should have power over the minority. A majority of the people in the South once believed in black slavery. Did that make it moral? A lynch mob is majority rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. In a community where homosexuals outnumber heterosexuals, should the majority have the right to outlaw sex between married partners of the opposite sex? In a community where atheists outnumber non- atheists, should the majority have the right to outlaw the practice of religion? ... a dictatorship allows only a small number of people to interfere with the rights of others, a democracy makes it possible for great numbers of people to impose their will on others -- through the force of government. Is an act of aggression more right if carried out by the majority than by a dictator? Since approxima

Robert J. Ringer

A Senate chairman cannot be dictatorial, ultimately, when a majority of the committee, a majority of the Senate, a majority of the American people, want action,

[Since then Mr. Hastert and his fellow GOP leaders have skillfully used their narrow majority to win an amazing number of close votes without having to negotiate much with Democrats. But gradually the fear of losing their majority has also begun leading them to behave more and more like the big-spending Democrats they unseated.] Holding the majority used to be viewed as a means to an end--the end being promoting freedom and limited government, ... Now, holding the majority seems to be an end in itself--holding onto power for the sake of holding onto power.

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