Assembly Quote by Alexander Hamilton

The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are…

— Polybius

When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their…

— John Stuart Mill

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses,…

— John Reed

Revolt is the right of the people

— John Locke

“I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference…

— Antonio Gramsci

Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not…

— Arthur Helps

“The masses often let themselves down and even those at the forefront who are hoisting the flag of the cause that is intended to…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will mutually hope to evince the justness…

— Alexander Hamilton

That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence…

— George Mason

“When occasions present themselves in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons…

— Alexander Hamilton

The great majority of people have a strong need for authority which they can admire, to which they can submit, and which dominates and…

— Sigmund Freud

The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger…

— James Madison