Thomas Jefferson on Prop 8

"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression."

"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the law ought to restrain him."

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one per cent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."