For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — Anonymous 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 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
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
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
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
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
Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a… — Steve King 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
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
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 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
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 greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and… — John Adams 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
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
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
Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association. — John Dewey 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
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
...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government… — Vince Flynn 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
I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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