Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an… — Chester Middlebrook Pierce Copy Share Image
Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means… — Albert Einstein 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
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if… — Patrick Cleburne 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
Bring on those tired, labor-plagued, competition-weary companies and ESOP will breathe new life into them. They will find ESOP better than Geritol.… — Russell B. Long Copy Share Image
But our perfect democracy, which neither needs nor particularly wants voters, is a rarity. It is important to remember there still exist… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
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
If we quickly cast aside our constitutional form of government, then the enemy will not be the terrorists, it will be us. — John Conyers 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
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
Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
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
Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
