Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how…

Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot…

— Joseph Joubert

There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government,…

— Aristotle

So what's the difference between republican and democratic forms of government? John Adams captured the essence of the difference when he said, 'You have…

— Walter E. Williams

The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than…

— John Adams

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

— Edward Abbey

Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various…

— George Mason

Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.

— George C. Marshall

Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to…

— George F. Kennan

War is like government, a matter of tact.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

— Woodrow Wilson

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the…

— Vince Flynn

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

— Edmund Burke

You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.

— Steven Pressfield

Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted,…

— Theodore Roosevelt