Rush Limbaugh Quotes

All societies, including societies called democratic, are ruled by a minority.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

The issue is the so-called educated few against the great democratic many.

At times those who won, 51 percent of the population claim the right to ride roughshod over the other 49 percent.

I have been defeated for election often enough to know that the majority can be wrong.

The ballot box is a license to govern, not a mandate to rule.

The debate is ended. Fifty percent plus one vote is all we need to govern this country.

In a democracy, you can be right and still lose power.

Our nation is not a fully representative democracy if we do not have a one-person, one-vote method of directly electing our president. It disproportionately tilts favor to smaller states with smaller populations.

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.

In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

The American people are beginning to see the Republicans' willingness to trample over 200 years of history, to step on the minority, to push everybody out of the way because they want 100 percent. It's rubbing the American people the wrong way. One-party rule is not good.

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.

I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?

The matter of who governs Zimbabwe is a matter that is in the hands of the people of Zimbabwe. The matter of who governs the people of South Africa is in the hands of the people of South Africa.

The Russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy.

The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.

I call government that works the best for people open society, which is basically just another more general term for a democracy that is - you call it maybe a liberal democracy. It's not only majority rule but also respect for minorities and minority opinions and the rule of law. So it's really a sort of institutional democracy.