If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights including women's rights you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

Truth always originates in a minority of one and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Even if you are a minority of one the truth is the truth.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society and could be followed even if no law existed and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority but harmful to the masses of men and can be enforced on them only by terror.

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion if there is one and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?

One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

In politics an organized minority is a political majority.