Ainsley Earhardt Quotes

Minority rights are just as important as majority decisions.

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.

Under universal suffrage the elected are those who know best how to take in the masses. The minority, which may happen to be the half minus one, is sacrificed.

The majority voice should be controlling ... after a full, fair, and candid expression.

[Sometimes] the minorities are too respectable, not to be entitled to some sacrifice of opinion, in the majority.

Wherever the sentiment of the majority is still genuine and intense, it is found to have abated little of its claim to be obeyed.

To say a democracy prospers only if one set of voices is heard would be untrue.

It is certainly refreshing to feel, at any rate, that this is a Parliament where half the nation will not be able to ride rough-shod over the other half.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

Shall we judge a country by the majority, or the minority? By the minority, surely.

Government, in which the majority rules in all things, cannot be based on justice.

Every plausible principle of equality is based on the thought that everyone matters and matters equally.

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.

If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure.

Liberty … is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

A democracy ... requires groups that assert all of society's interests, not just those of a small group.

Democracy is not the ideally best form of government … unless it can be so organized that no class, not even the most numerous, shall be able to reduce all but itself to political insignificance, and direct the course of legislation and administration by its exclusive class interest.

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

In America, opportunity and equality are not a zero-sum game

Where men have general rights, and are all guided, as it were, by one mind, it is certain that every individual has the less right the more the rest collectively exceed him in power

Either the happiness of the many or the predominance of the few must be sacrificed

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

51 percent of the people should not always get 100% of the power; 51 percent of the people should certainly not get all the power if they use that power to exclude the 49%. In that case, we do not have majority rule. We have majority tyranny.