Famous quotes containing the words popular and/or subject:
“Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.”
—Charles James Fox (1749–1806)
“It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is less need of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.”
—Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)