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“Democracia é o governo do povo, pelo povo e para o povo.”
Democracy: government of the people, by the people, for the people
citado em "Abraham Lincoln; the tribute of a century, 1809-1909: commemorative of the Lincoln centenary and containing the principal speeches made in connection therewith" - Página 35, Nathan William MacChesney - A.C. McClurg & Co., 1910 - 555 páginas

In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.
Discurso em Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida (16 de dezembro de 1971); publicado em Gerald R. Ford, Selected Speeches (Falas selecionadas) (1973) editado por Michael V. Doyle
