Popular sovereignty Quote by Leo Klinkers

“As is the way in political matters, all were convinced that the interests of the community and their own personal interests were one and…

— Anonymous

“Where democracy – as an evident necessity – has to be organized through representation, actors coincide with groups-interests. In a representative democracy the interests…

— Leo Klinkers

Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and…

— Gerrard Winstanley

“When a nation was faced with a choice between abstract principle or complete self-interest, it took self-interest every time.”

— Jack L. Chalker

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of…

— Friedrich List

“The smaller the unit of government and the more restricted the functions assigned government, the less likely it is that its actions will reflect…

— Milton Friedman

“Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker…

— Edward S. Greenberg

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

— Bernard Crick

[In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication…

— James Madison

“My prevailing interest has been in the world as a whole, and in the place of a person in a larger setting than one…

— John Hersey

“Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“...the special interests are almost everybody. Everybody perceives they stand to lose if the economy is allowed to evolve. They are right if their…

— William W. Lewis