"Majority rule" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Jimmy. "Well, though I'm leader I'm willing to abide by the majority rule. Since you all want to go to the south, the ...
— The Khaki Boys Over the Top - Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam • Gordon Bates
... headed in the direction of a military despotism. Her example should warn England from a move in the same direction. "The classes which govern this country are in a minority," and should beware of majority rule. But events discredited the prophecy of a military despotism. The assassination of Lincoln gave opportunity not merely for a general outpouring of expressions of sympathy but also to the Radicals a chance to ...
— Great Britain and the American Civil War • Ephraim Douglass Adams
... not numerous enough to stand without the aid of these same untrustworthy Northern auxiliaries, who already, at the first indication of incipient success for our arms, propose, like this writer, to remand them to the tender mercies of a Southern majority rule. It is the fear of this treachery which makes them so few as they are, and so weak. It is these men whom we wish to see sustained, recognized as the loyal and the new South, and aided in the work of reconstruction, ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol V. Issue III. March, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various |
