The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.