Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically… — Robert Bellarmine 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
Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
It was one of the great mass achievements of American civilization, and we did it because we thought if you were going… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better… — John Adams Copy Share Image
First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical… It reduces wisdom to… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the… — William E. Jenner Copy Share Image
How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it neither our free enterprise system nor our… — Jeffrey H Reiman Copy Share Image
What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We do not force things on people. That's not how we want things to eventuate. That's not how we want things to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
You will permit me to say, that a greater drama is now acting on this theatre than has heretofore been brought on… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how… — Oscar Wilde 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
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
Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
When an upstart dictator in the United States succeeds in making this a one-party form of government, I shall have the courage… — Charles Coughlin Copy Share Image
It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which… — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet. — Rupert Murdoch 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
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form… — Todd Tiahrt Copy Share Image