Ram Nath Kovind Quotes

A government as good as the people.

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it ...

I will never forget that it is the people who speak directly through the constitution they have adopted.

I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here?

America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization, but also on the commitment, person to person, that we make to each other.

In this country the government responds to the people, not the other way around.

We the People ….

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

The government is just the people acting together.

Presidents come from the people and the should return to the people.

We hold the true republican position. In leaving the people's business in their hands, we cannot be wrong.

Resolved-1st, That the People are the source of all legitimate power; and, That We are the People.

Citizens do not just make up and preserve a Republic; they are its ultimate stakeholders and in fact pillars.

The only leader America should ever have is someone who understands that the people are the government.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

Balancing the common good with the freedom and liberty to exercise that individuality has been and remains a challenge for those committed to democracy while understanding that the polis ensures our participation and therefore our citizenship.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point - is that ours is to be a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.'

The masses are our masters; and for every one who looks facts in the face his existence has become dependent on them, so that the thought of them must control his doings, his cares, and his duties.