Who said people should not fear the government government should fear the people?

It was from a movie "V for Vendetta" from the guys who brought you the Matrix. It is however a modernization of a Thomas Jefferson Quote that goes "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. " Thomas Jefferson

John Locke's ideas- said that people had the right to life, liberty, and property; he also said that government should be created by the people to protect the people; government should have limited powers.

Only if it speaks like in the story. We have only the reaper to fear & I think B.O.C. said it best in the song.

Patrick Henry said this.

The phrase government of the people by the people for the people means that the people under god should not have died

Jefferson said the the government that does not serve the people should be overthrown

Hobbes, said to give all freedoms for protection from the government. and down graded all humans to the following:thirst for power and fear of death. Locke, said to give SOME freedoms for natural rights. Rousseau, said that the people should chose own there leaders.

People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer. Andrew Smith

President Franklin Roosevelt said "the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." It meant that people get scared and act badly, there is no need to be scared of the unknown.

Fear caused people to believe that nothing could be done

fear paralyzed people so that they could not see the solution

it most likely made people doubt!they had no faith when they 'feared'. Be unable to see solutions

Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address

The government shouldn't have a lot of power over people- the government didn't make people. ONly God should be able to collect taxes or impose laws, as He has done. The government should also not over regulate the economy, because people can only earn what the market should bear. the government is best which governs least, as Thoreau said. The government should not climb in your windows or snatch your people up and should especially not try to you-know them. The government shouldn't have as much power as the law, in the case of the US the Constitution. The government shouldn't let bad things happen to people, except to people who do bad things to other people. The government should also not bs answers to internet questions.

well, somebody said that if you want to cure your fear should to it fast or get the person really used to it. when i said fast i mean get the person to be face-to-face with his/her fear. like if your have a fear for snakes you should go to the zoo or something to see or hold a snake..

i think you should spell "does" right before you ask that kind of question.

A long time ago there where these government people who wanted a leader for the whole USA.

He said all in the Declaration that the government needs to think of the common good of the people and the people have the right to change the government. He believed in world revolution and felt that all people should take part in their government.

Who said " A popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people?

Enlightenment thinkers Elightement Thinkers Enlightenment thinkers said that a government should be chosen by its citizens. This is a person's opinion.

The Jeffersonian Ideal, or Jeffersonian Republicanism, was a theory made by Thomas Jefferson. It was a belief that said the people run the government and that the government should be small and simple.

Abraham Lincoln--the Gettysburg address

Franklin Delano Roosevelt said in his inaugural address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself".

He meant that fear could be so strong that a person could not act. But we should over come it as there was nothing else in the way.

Enlightenment thinkers