Ben Carson Quotes

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

In America we have no need of kings.

Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.

With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Representative democracy has for its characteristic object and effect…securing its members against oppression and depredation at the hands of those functionaries which it employs for its defense.

A government as good as the people.

Sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the people.

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

The Sovereign: The People

The new Turkish State is a state of the people and a state by the people.

The king, in possession of the throne, was the sole representative of sovereignty, the sole representative of power. Not so in a Republic … Here we have no sole representative of power. The ballot box is the instrumentality through which the sovereign power is exercised.

We are convinced that the institution of monarchy is incompatible with the spirit and needs of modern times which demand an egalitarian relationship between one citizen and another

The wisdom and discretion of Congress ... are the restraints on which the people must often rely solely, in all representative governments

The existing pseudo-government which was not elected by the people and which is not accountable to the people must be replaced by a government recognized by the people, elected by representatives of the workers, soldiers and peasants and held accountable to their representatives.

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

Fierce nomination fights have been going on since the early days of the Republic …. The founding fathers wanted to avoid a monarchy and instead created anarchy.

A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.

This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the great hereditary magistracy exercised by the king; but in a free country, there can only be citizens and public officers.

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.