Double Majority Requirement

Famous quotes containing the words double, majority and/or requirement:

    “On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse—as a luxury befitting a young man.”
    —Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

    “The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.”
    —John Major (b. 1943)