Morris Dees Quotes

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.

The government is just the people acting together.

Democracy is based on the idea that the people rule and that the best decisions are made in public view.

Government is not an enemy of the people. Government is the people themselves.

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

Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

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

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less.

The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

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

I trust the American People more than American Institutions.

How is it the community can check ? The community can act only when assembled; and when assembled, it is incapable of acting. The community, however, can choose representatives.

Without care, there is no democracy.

Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.

People should look at the government as 'us,' not as 'them' and not in terror.

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

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us