Bases Quote by Abraham Lincoln

I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the…

— Abraham Lincoln

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

— Giambattista Vico

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which…

— Henry David Thoreau

We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

— Alan Paton

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

— Abraham Lincoln

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and…

— Wendell Phillips

American working men are principals in the three-member team of capital, management, labor. Never have they regarded themselves as a servile class that could…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

— Robert Burton

All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable,…

— Fisher Ames

Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all…

— David Dudley Field II

It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.

— James Monroe