Immense Majority

Famous quotes containing the words immense majority, immense and/or majority:

    The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
    George Steiner (b. 1929)

    It is very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
    James Madison (1751–1836)