"[The need for a Bill of Rights to protect the minimum rights of all, especially minorities including individuals, from the self-serving wishes of the majority:] There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong."

Author: James Madison

Notes: (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President. [Refer http://libertytree.ca/quotes/James.Madison.Quote.A7C3 ]