Who said “There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.”?

“The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.”

“The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.”

“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”

“Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as ''right'' in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as ''brute force.''”

“The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights -- that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.”

“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”

“Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.”

“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”

“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.”

“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”

“People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.”