The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.
A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
Societies depend on agreed rules.
In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
A government is for the benefit of all the people.
A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.
Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.
When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.