We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.