Quotes about Representation

ANTITYPE  (A'NTITYPE)   n.s.[   which is resembled or shadowed out by the type; that of which the type is the representation.It is a term of theology.See TYPE. When once upon the wing, he soars to an higher pitch, from the type to the antitype, to the days of the Messiah, the ascension of our Saviour, and, at length, to his kingdom and dominion over all the earth.Burnet'sTheory of the Earth.

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.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

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.

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.