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
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
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding. — Aristotle 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 only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all… — George Mason Copy Share Image
There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue… — Benjamin Rush 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
“Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. Aristotle speaks plainly to this purpose, saying, 'that the institution of… — John Adams 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
Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history … Many forms of Government have been… — Barack Obama 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
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
I declare that this government is no longer a constitutional and moral form of government. I will deal with it, and I… — Lawrence Auster Copy Share Image
Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as… — John Locke 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
Inspired men have been raised up, who have given us our form of government, and the code of laws by which we… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws,… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
You know, the primary process itself is very confusing. But in the end, I guess I believe what Winston Churchill said, which… — Geoffrey Cowan Copy Share Image
Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government. — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world. — Franklin D Roosevelt 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
A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that… — Tim Pratt 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
That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where… — Charles Inglis Copy Share Image
Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government. — James Bovard 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
![“Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made…” quote by John Locke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/061/john-locke-814_arbitrary_tis-a-mistake-to-think-this-fault-tyrann_1921223.jpg)
