Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.
Benjamin FranklinIn free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.
Benjamin FranklinThe good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.
Benjamin Franklin