America Quote by Warren G. Harding

The political terms 'will' and 'popular will' have a long track record in Western history going back to Rousseau. That record is profoundly anti-democratic,…

— John Leo

I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

— Queen Rania of Jordan

What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted,…

— Walter Lippmann

“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

— John Quincy Adams

“[T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination…

— Irving Copi

“In the final analysis, what is it that we call popular, democratic power? Beyond the expressed will of the people, as it is supposedly…

— Anonymous

To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American]…

— John C. Calhoun

We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society,…

— Thomas Jefferson

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

— Thomas Jefferson

The success of our admirable system is a conclusive refutation of the theories of those in other countries who maintain that a "favored few"…

— James K Polk

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well…

— David Hume