Benito Mussolini Quotes

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

The first line of the U. S. Constitution is “We the people” … in thriving democracies any time that any player takes a key decision that ignores or evades “We the people” he violates the spirit of democracy and condemns himself to illegitimacy.

The people who own the country ought to govern it.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it …

The people living in this land, its inhabitants, its citizens, rich and poor, great and humble… these are all the true lords and masters, who have the right to say how and through whom they are to be governed.

Should the people rule?

Those who govern must see how the people react to administration. Ultimately, the people are the final arbiters.

The throne we honour is the people's choice.

The will of the people shall be the law of the land

Here sir, the people govern.

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?

It is unfortunate that people believe that in order to democratise something you have to get politicians out of the system.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

The people are the masters.

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

To say that sovereignty vests with the people, and that they have not a right to instruct and control their representative is absurd to the last degree.

Democratic government may indeed be defined as the government which accepts in the fullest sense responsibility to explain itself.

Are the governors such exceptionally gifted men as to enable them … to represent the masses and act in the interests of all men better than all men would be able to act for themselves?

The people want to exercise power but what on earth would they do with it if it were given to them?