"A popular government is not a government of a majority, by a majority, for a majority of the people. It is a government of the whole people, by a majority of the whole people under such rules and checks as will secure a wise, just, and beneficent government for all the people."

Veto of the Arizona Enabling Act, August 22, 1911 - William Howard Taft, Twenty-Seventh President 1909-1913

 "America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration; not surgery but serenity; not the dramatic but the dispassionate; not experiment but equipoise; not submergence in internationality but sustainment in triumphant nationality."

Speech at Boston, May 14, 1920 - Warren G. Harding, Twenty-Ninth President 1921-1923

"It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes, They know it, the pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant."

Speech as Evanston, Illinois, January 21, 1923 - Calvin Coolidge, Thirtieth President 1923-1929.