Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
I am now-the friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism and the Declaration of Independence, the great… — John Stark Copy Share Image
My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Then we have a World Run, where representatives from all the charters meet. — Chuck Zito Copy Share Image
Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power. — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
See yourself as you really are. Listen to what none of your leaders and representatives dares tell you: You are a "little,… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I'm willing to be representative. I'm just an actor. I'm just playing a role, so even if it is a person I… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I don't think we should take the emotional reactions of a few people as more representative than those of the millions of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Like most Americans, I live in the line of fire of a shooting match that is going on over Reagan's legacy. It's… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It's always interesting to see what the real enthusiasts think, but they're rarely representative of the tastes of the wider audience, so… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
