Sun Myung Moon Quotes

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about 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.

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.

Governments are sails, the people is the wind, the state is the boat, and time is the sea.

The government is just the people acting together.

In a democracy, as a matter of course, every effort is made to seize upon and create publick opinion, which is, substantially, securing power.

Democracy is about aggregating the collective power of citizens to speak in their behalf.

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?

Government is the majority’s!

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery

When I grow up I’m going to change the government.

The American Government will be what we all make of it.

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.

Somebody is going to be making the laws for this entire country. It could be you. Will it be you?

The vote controls everything that you do.

Is it average Joes like ourselves who go to the ballot box and truly decide who are going to be the leaders, not only of their party - of their government - at the local, at the state, at the federal level? Is that really who's still in charge?

I think we need to raise our voices, and we need to demonstrate to the people we represent, as well as the American people, that their leaders have a responsibility to take action.