Class Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

— P. D. James

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

You cannot have a government for and by the people if it is not represented by all of the people.

— Ayanna Pressley

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

— John Locke

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

— Millicent Fenwick

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

— Andrew Jackson

Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

— William Howard Taft

It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.

— Thomas Jefferson

Only individuals can desire and act. The existence of an institution such as government becomes meaningful only through influencing the actions of those individuals…

— Murray Rothbard

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

— Ernest Mandel

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

— Thomas Jefferson