Henry David Thoreau Majority Quotations

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

I am a majority of one.

After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.