The basis of our government (is) is opinion of the people.
People Quotes
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.
The animosities of soverigns are temporary, and may be allayed; but those which sieze the whole body of people, and of a people too, dictate their own measures, produce calamities of long duration.
The people are in their nature so gentle, that there never was a government yet in which thousands of mistakes were not overlooked. The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government, that there are no instances of resistance, until repeated, multiplied oppressions have placed it beyond a doubt, that their rulers […]
My only wish is… to transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter into students of this world, Christians who, by their own procession and admission, are “half animal, half angel” into persons, into whole persons.
The good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army.
I am persuaded there is among the mass of our people a fund of wisdom, integrity, and humanity which will preserve their happiness in a tolerable measure.
Now let all of us who are moderate, reasonable, fair-minded, balanced and normal, lift up our voices and give thanks to all those who are immoderate, unreasonable, bloody-minded, unbalanced and crazy; because without them as our context it is we who should be the abnormal ones. If all 3,500 million people in the world who […]
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is to their interest to preserve peace and order. . . They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
There is but one element of government, and that is the people. From this element spring all governments. For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she will it. For a nation to be slave, it is only necessary that she wills it.
