Establishment Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful…

— Abraham Lincoln

Our form of government can no longer be considered an experiment in politics. Crowned with success, it stands forth an example to the world…

— John Tyler

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

— Baron de Montesquieu

The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It…

— George Washington

“Whoever considers the nature of our government with discernment will see that though obstacles and delays will frequently stand in the way of the…

— Ron Chernow

The theory of government changes with general progress.

— Ulysses S. Grant

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

— James Madison

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in…

— Kenzaburo Oe

“This is a relatively recent phenomenon, this notion that government inevitably leads to dependency. Look, there were periods of time in our history when…

— David Blum

That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

— Charles de Secondat

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge…

— Walter Lippmann