You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.
By nature, every individual has the right to govern himself; and governments, whether founded on majorities or minorities, must derive their right from the assent, expressed or implied, of the governed,, and be subject to such limitations as they may impose.
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
A government is for the benefit of all the people.
If the condition of Government stands still, it just makes no sense and must die, so, therefore, the improvement within that democracy must be the greater and greater equalization of rights and opportunities to the people as those people grow up.
Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.
The people want government that works for them at every level.
My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.