The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which… — John Adams 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
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 hold no brief for Communists, but I believe in and will defend their right to act independently within the law. I… — Gregory Peck Copy Share Image
As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
Islam's basic principles of belief, worship, morality, and behavior are not affected by changing times. Islam does not propose a certain unchangeable… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. Our government does not copy our neighbors', but… — Pericles Copy Share Image
So what's the difference between republican and democratic forms of government? John Adams captured the essence of the difference when he said,… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
Our forms of government - though both cast in the democratic pattern - are greatly different. Indeed, sometimes it appears that many… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can't make laws. And… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government.… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have… — Tommy Franks Copy Share Image
Our Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathersand their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If democracy is control by the people, as it is supposed to be, it is the right form of government. I believe… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The right of a nation to determine its own form of government does not include the right to establish a slave society… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In adopting the republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better, for worse,… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate… — 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
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
