Governing People Quotes
- They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That… — Eugene V. Debs
- In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have… — Walter Lippmann
- Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant… — Alan Keyes
- I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing… — John F. Kennedy
- Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people. — Woodrow Wilson
- Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study… — Elihu Root