Quotes about Representation
Affection is the lively representment of any passion whatsoever, as if the figures stood not upon a cloth or board, but as if they were acting upon a stage.Wotton'sArchitecture.
— Samuel Johnson
The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.
— John Lennon
Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".
— Abraham Lincoln
The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.
— Thomas Jefferson
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
— Edmund Burke
In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
— Edmund Burke
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
— Frederick Douglass
We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
— James Madison
If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.
— Jerry Falwell
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
— Woodrow Wilson
As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.
— John Adams