Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink whilst thousands of great cattle reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak chew the cud and are silent pray to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that after all they are other than the little shriveled meagre hopping though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Haint we got all the fools in town on our side? And haint that a big enough majority in any town?
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink whilst thousands of great cattle reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak chew the cud and are silent pray to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that after all they are other than the little shriveled meagre hopping though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
Truth is not determined by majority vote
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
Wherever there is danger there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Plurality is not to be assumed without necessity. Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Ockhams Razor)
One on Gods side is a majority.
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.
Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.