Quote#Politics & Power
Where the citizen is sovereign and the official the servant, where no…
Quote byUlysses S. Grant · 1822–1885
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee (1875).
English (original)
Where the citizen is sovereign and the official the servant, where no power is exercised except by the will of the people, it is important that the sovereign — the people — should possess intelligence.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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