majorities

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity,

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

Imagine of all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stonewashed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on library shelves. And-since women are a majority of the population-we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions -that was the error of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood.

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

Before success comes in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.