Sun Yat-sen — "Let the people in thinking about government distinguish between sovereignty and …"

Let the people in thinking about government distinguish between sovereignty and ability. Let the great political force of the state be divided into two: the power of the government and the power of the people. Such a division will make the government the machinery and the people the engineer. The attitude of the people toward the government will then resemble the attitude of the engineer toward his machine.
Sun Yat-sen — Sun Yat-sen Modern · Father of modern China

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From his lecture on 'The Principle of Democracy', using a mechanistic analogy for governance.

Date: 1924

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