Connection Quote by John C. Calhoun

The government of the Union, then, ... is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from…

— John Marshall

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

— William Scranton

The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them,…

— James Madison

The government serves the people - not vice-versa.

— Joe Wilson

In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can…

— Joseph Story

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

— Merliah Summers

We have a lot of friends, but not among the governments - the friends are in the peoples. And in the last instance the…

— Che Guevara

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch…

— Thomas Jefferson

In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the united majesty, sovereignty, and power of the…

— John C. Calhoun

Building Union among people not cooperation between states

— Jean Monnet

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

— Andrew Jackson

The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it…

— Marianne Williamson