Quotes About People

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.

Conservative Republicans are back. We're in the fight for fiscal discipline and limited government, and we are on the side of the American people.

Government is waging war against the people.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Bitcoin is not a currency for a government; it is a global currency for the people.

If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by 'the people' is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.