Quotes About People

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.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.

This we learn from Watergate that almost any creep'll be glad to help the Government overthrow the people.

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the cracks so that people don't fall in the first place.

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people.

Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.

Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.

When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.