Backwards Quote by John Ralston Saul

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are…

— Edward Gibbon

Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the…

— Charles Koch

Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them.…

— Calvin Coolidge

When any civil government steps outside the mandate authorized by God Almighty, then that government does not have any further claim over its citizens.

— Pat Robertson

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

— William A. Dembski

But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is…

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate…

— H. L. Mencken

“once the citizenry acquiesces to a new power, believing that it does not affect them, it becomes institutionalized and legitimized and objection becomes impossible.”

— Glenn Greenwald

The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

— Fred Hampton

We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people…

— Walter Lippmann

“Let us be clear at the outset that the liberty of individuals to carry on their business should not be abrogated unless the larger…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a…

— Abraham Lincoln