Alex Tabarrok Quotes

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of the matter.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

The founding fathers set up this country as a republic—not a democracy.

No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many.

Where there is only a national representative government without local self-government, there is no liberty as we understand it

In this country the people, not the Government, possess the absolute sovereignty.

We were given a system of government that places the people at the center of all decision-making and relies on the consent of the governed, with our rights and the government's limitations clearly outlined.

It's a question of whether or not we the people are still in charge. And by 'we the people,' I mean, is this truly a government of and by and for the people.

We the People' are the prime movers of the Republic.

There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

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

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.