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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is
generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who
have no opinion—and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its
opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.
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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other
forty-nine.
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A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it
clogs by its whole weight.
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are
right.
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Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence itis the
noblest cry that has ever resounded on this planet.
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How a minority,
Reaching majority,
Seizing authority,
Hates a minority!
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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and
few enemies.
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