Lord Acton Minorities Quotations

The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.