NonParty slogan
The primary slogan of this site is
government of the people by the people for the
people
This slogan was famously quoted by Abraham Lincoln, a Republican
president of the USA, in his "Gettysburg address".
It allegedly [but not certainly] comes
originally from John Wycliffe's 1384 prologue to his
English-language version of the Bible.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wycliffe
See https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/who-coined-government-of-the-people-by-the-people-for-the-people/2017/03/31/12fc465a-0fd5-11e7-aa57-2ca1b05c41b8_story.html,
which tells us:
Lincoln evidently borrowed the now-famous three-part
phrase. In 1384, John Wycliffe
wrote in
the prologue to his translation of the Bible, “The Bible is for
the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People”
(Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 1951 edition). Bartlett
cites Theodore Parker using this
phraseology in a sermon in
Boston’s Music Hall on July 4, 1858, noting that Lincoln’s law
partner William H. Herndon visited Boston and returned to
Springfield, Ill., with some of Parker’s sermons and
addresses. Herndon wrote that Lincoln marked with pencil the
portion of the Music Hall address “Democracy is direct
self-government, over all the people, by all the people, for all
the people.”
We dislike what has recently been the slogan of the UK Labour
Party: "For the many not the few". This seems to be
deliberately divisive. We are for everybody. If Labour had said
"For the many, not
just the few" we would have objected slightly less.