Denis Diderot Quotes

A parliamentary democracy that has developed its delicate balances over hundreds of years will not give up its sovereign rights.

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

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

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

In the United States the people are the government; and their united voice is the only sovereign that should rule; the only power that should be obeyed; and the only gentlemen that should be honored; at home and abroad; on the land and the sea.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.

All power is inherent in the people.

After all, our Constitution was intended as a popular document. It was drafted and ratified by the people. It established democratic institutions. It entrusts the people with the power to make the tough decisions. And, in most cases, it prefers the will of the people to the unchecked rule of judges.

The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.

I think it's time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.

Because I'm a democrat! The will of the people is sovereign.

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

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

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.

There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring all governments. "For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she wills it." For a nation to be slave, it is only necessary that she wills it.

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.

The throne we honour is the people's choice.

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

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

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.

We want the government to be controlled by all the people, not by the richest 1%. That's always been the first demand. That's a simple enough message, and I think it's pretty clear now, even though much of the media has been disingenuous in its coverage. We don't want the heads of the biggest industries to make all the decisions, because they're not for the people. They're for the corporations. Power to the people!

Trust the people -- that is the crucial lesson of history.

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.