The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that… — Tim Pratt Copy Share Image
Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government. — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all… — George Mason Copy Share Image
This is the first nation that organized government on the basis of universal liberty with a free Church and a free State.… — Oscar Straus Copy Share Image
It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world. — Franklin D Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The thing that distinguishes America is that it is a republican form of government - anything that is not outlawed or specifically… — Bernard von NotHaus Copy Share Image
Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history … Many forms of Government have been… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. Aristotle speaks plainly to this purpose, saying, 'that the institution of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys…… — Jedidiah Morse Copy Share Image
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