Quotes About Popular Sovereignty

#1. Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

Alexis Tsipras

#2. Quite simply, there can be no popular sovereignty without a real belief in the value of government. If government does not assume and carry out public responsibilities, less accountable institutions such as the corporation will do the job in their own self-interest.

Charles Derber

#3. Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular sovereignty the new moral justification for the political system of historical capitalism.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#5. Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker the democracy.

Edward S. Greenberg

#6. The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic.

George Packer

#7. Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

Terry Wogan

#8. To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

Dashiell Hammett

#9. My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.

Christian Kane

#10. Obviously, you know, I am known as an action director, and being a film editor previously had been a great advantage for me as an action director.

John Glen

#11. My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations.

Tom Tomorrow