Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.” ~ Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionistSource: No Treason, 1867