A Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
American - President
January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945

Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.

Robert Green Ingersoll

We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.

Charles Evans Hughes

We have tried to remind Government servants that they are servants of the public and have restored discipline in Central Government offices. I have done a small thing, one that appears small from outside. I regularly interact with officers over tea; it is part of my working style. Philosophically, I feel that the country will progress only if we work as teams. This is the only way we can successfully develop the country.

Narendra Modi

We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any saviour. We want to be masters of the world and not instruments used by autocrats to carry out their wild ambitions. We want a modern lifestyle and democracy for the people. Freedom and happiness are our sole objectives in accomplishing modernisation.

Wei Jingsheng

People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it.

Mitt Romney

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

Howard Zinn

The British are a people who are generally happy, under normal circumstances, to trust politicians to tell us the truth and to leave them to run the country as we get on with our lives. But we reserve the right, always, to make it clear that they are our servants, not our masters, and, when necessary, we can and will take charge.

Gina Miller

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

Aesop

It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'

Aesop

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

Seneca the Younger

I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters and mistresses.

Jan Hus

We should be servants of Jesus not masters of people

George O. Wood

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

Grover Cleveland

A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But lets remember that, despite being a poor country, Indias democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.

Alex Tabarrok

[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them, not as their government. In a democracy it would be your government.