Power of the People Quotes

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

As surely as one year passes from this day, … we shall proceed to call another convention expressly to frame a new constitution and to erect a new government, complete in all its parts and to take measures to maintain it as effectually as men do theirs. We mean treason; we mean secession, and on a thousand times grander scale than was that of the south. We are plotting revolution; we will overslough this bogus republic and plant a government of righteousness in its stead, which shall not only profess to derive its power from consent of the governed, but shall do so in reality.

We need critical mass. We need people, not just one or two. We need a lot of them.

When ordinary people come together, they can upset the mighty.

We must remember that the people do not belong to the government but that government belongs to the people.

The more people there are, the more things they see, and in them there is a more perceptive and discerning reason than in one person: therefore, in this respect, it is better to be ruled by many

My chief weapon is public opinion: The Spaniards, incapable of directing it, have prohibited its use; but now they are experiencing its force and importance.

Government should fear the people, not the other way around.

It is always those with little learning that overthrow those with much learning.

A lone voice isn't as important as a collective voice.

It's a one-day story of a guy called Newton Kumar, and the backdrop is election: how the most powerful tool we have as citizens is vote but how we don't utilise it. We really don't give importance to it. It talks about democracy; it's a satire, a black comedy.

Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

It's up to the audience. It always has been.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

Peoples did not in the first instance originate from rulers, but whatever peoples desired to be ruled by a single monarch or by chief men elected by them were anterior to their rulers. Hence it follows that peoples were not created for the sake of rulers, but on the contrary the rulers for the sake of the people.

FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.

You are the majority in number and intelligence; therefore you are the force—which is justice.

A vocal minority beats a silent majority.

I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

When people come together in large numbers they become aware of their strength.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

A riot is somebody talking. A riot is a man crying out, "Listen to me, mister. There's something I've been trying to tell you and you're not listening.