The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
-
Similar:
| Quote 4389 | A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Kn... |
| Quote 10015 | It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. |
| Quote 13844 | The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes t... |
| Quote 5012 | Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until l... |
| Quote 3776 | I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. |
| Quote 3653 | Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government... |
| Quote 6906 | It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no positi... |
| Quote 12037 | Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. |
| Quote 10588 | Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. |