Artificial Quote by Edmund Burke

Even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against its people;…

— Robert Kennedy

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

— Anonymous

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the…

— Anonymous

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by…

— John Locke

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of…

— Cory Doctorow

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of…

— James Madison

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and…

— James Madison

To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is,…

— John Locke

“The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their private actions,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this…

— Thomas Paine

“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may…

— James MacGregor Burns

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

— Giambattista Vico