Henry Campbell-Bannerman Quotes

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.

Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it within the people's reach, and teach them how to use and enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.

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

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.

Government of the people and for the people.

If the people want a government of their own they must do the work of making it their own.

Where there is only a national representative government without local self-government, there is no liberty as we understand it

I believe in decentralized democracy.

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

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

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

Democracy only works, as President [Barack] Obama spoke of in his farewell message, if it's driven by the people and the people stay active and vigilant and speak out and let their concerns be known.

A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it. They are more or less unfit for liberty; and although it may be for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are unlikely long to enjoy it

In America, we will have a government of, by and for the people.

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.

People want the government to go back to the people.

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

Taiwan is democratic.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Well, it's very clear that the Arab population is rising because they'd like to have a say in the running of their affairs, running of their government, and this is very legitimate.