Quotes about People
I'm going to fight for every person in America who believes government should serve the people, not the donors and not the special interests.
— Donald Trump
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
— James Madison
The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.
— John Lennon
Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".
— Abraham Lincoln
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.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.
— John Wesley
The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.
— James Madison
Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.
— Ludwig Borne
People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.
— Will Rogers
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
— Calvin Coolidge
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
— George Washington
In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
— Edmund Burke