A Quote by Richard M. Nixon

The great silent majority. — © Richard M. Nixon
The great silent majority.
I do think that inside of country music now there's a very silent majority, and I represent that silent majority.
This is a movement. This is not Trump. This is not anything. This is a movement. Remember, it is a movement. We used to say silent majority. It`s not a silent majority, it`s really a noisy majority.
I've heard the term ["silent majority"], but for the last 20 years I really haven't heard the term. But I went to a rally in Alabama, and there were 31,000 people there, you've seen it, you've read about it. And I looked and I said, this is the silent majority. Though they weren't silent, because they want to see proper change, not [Barack] Obama change.
Donald Trump is actually the voice of the silent majority, and I think he's awoken that silent majority. People are very angry, and the people who are the most angry are actually the legal immigrants who see their jobs fleeing.
Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
Despite what traditional polling places and the media says, a majority of Americans support Donald Trump. A very silent majority.
People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.
The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.
Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.
I'd say we represent the silent majority.
When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn.
A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.
To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.
Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonightto you, the great silent majority of my fellow AmericansI ask for your support.
The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's.
The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
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