Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
- Notebook, 1904

When you set aside mere names & come down to realities, you find that we are ruled by a King just as other absolute monarchies are. His name is The Majority. He is mighty in bulk & strength ... He rules by the right of possessing less money & less brains & more ignorance than the other competitor for the throne, The Minority. Ours is an Absolute Monarchy.
- Mark Twain Papers, DV #4, quoted in Mark Twain at Large, Arthur L. Scott, p. 96-97.