Government Quote by Daniel Webster

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

— Daniel Webster

The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence…

— William J. Clinton

“By making the government a combination of elected officials and citizen-backed initiatives and referenda, there can truly be a government of the people, by…

— Victoria Stoklasa

We, the people." It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was…

— Barbara Jordan

“The business of the government is the business of the people.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Government is of the people,for the people, and by the people.

— Merliah Summers

“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or…

— John Adams

The real struggle between an American government and the people was one of power, which was settled when they designed their Constitution, which conceded…

— Ndabaningi Sithole

“Once more, we will have a government of, by and for the people.”

— David Horowitz

“Mankind were intended to be happy... that government being only the means of securing freedom and happiness to the people, whenever it deviates from…

— James Iredell

“Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place: how its institutions were undermined,…

— Anne Applebaum

The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.

— Theodore Roosevelt