Country Quote by Ludwig Borne

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

— Merliah Summers

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

— Thomas Paine

Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.

— Henry Rollins

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

— Anonymous

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

— George Washington

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

— Andrew Jackson

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

— Jesse Ventura

In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns.

— Benjamin Franklin

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and…

— John Adams

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered,…

— Lord Acton

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

— Frank Herbert