Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1139 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–59) |
| QUOTATION: | It is quite plain that your government will never be able to restrain a distressed and discontented majority. For with you the majority is the government, and has the rich, who are always a minority, absolutely at its mercy. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | See note at No. 334 about this letter. |
| SUBJECTS: | Majority |