“As long as you have broad representation from many parts of society, representative government works extremely well. And it works even better… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
What we would be committed to would be a representative government where all the Iraqi people decide who should lead their nation,… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government;… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Military and absolutist regimes are undoubtedly well fitted to get the jump on an unsuspecting or unprepared enemy; but the history of… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals-not some, but all. All… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
The spread of democracy, the new foundation of the rule of law, and the creation of fledgling representative governments that honor and… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A government reflects the views of those who select it, and if people are unable to cast their ballot because the voting… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
For too long, America tolerated a 'democratic exception' in the Muslim Middle East. As long as governments were friendly and backed regional… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
There is one central characteristic of anarchism on the matter of means, and that central principle is a principle of direct action… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“When a government turns from following the will of its people to willing its people to follow — acting according to its… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
