Alexei Navalny Quotes

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

The people are, in fact, the fountain of all power.

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

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

The people who own the country ought to govern it.

The authority of the people is a necessary foundation for a constitution

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

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.

All political power is a trust.

ALL lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people. Power in the people is like light in the sun, native, original, inherent and unlimited by any thing human.

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.

A Republic is its people.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

I am the government.

Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

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

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

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

The superintending government ought clearly to possess authority to defend the system against aristocratic or monarchical innovations .

The will of the people makes governments legitimate.

He who is the most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power is as eager after for the prerogatives of government.

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

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.

The House of Representatives is the center of power of the most powerful nation in the world.