Part 1 of 12: On The People
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
-Abraham Lincoln
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. -James Madison
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. -Thomas Jefferson
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be a s big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
-John F. Kennedy
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. -Benjamin Franklin
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. -Woodrow Wilson
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. -George Washington
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
-Abraham Lincoln
5:28 AM PT: Editor's Notes: Could use some help with this. Have at least 200 quotes that need to be picked through and organized, and probably missed plenty too, so feel free to leave in comments or message.
Also thought about using this quote from Washington instead: "The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves." and but decided against re-appropriating.