Quotes About People

I think it's important to remember that the court itself, the federal government itself belongs to the American people.

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.

The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.

People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

The greatest source of America's generosity is not our government; it's the good heart of the American people.

Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.

I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.

For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

I am asking all Americans, Republicans, Independents and Democrats, to join us in our campaign to defeat the corrupt establishment and give our government back to the people. It's going to happen.

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.