Advantage Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of the working…

— Joseph Stalin

A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little…

— Ralph Nader

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the…

— Mark Twain

The great advantage of our system of government over all others, is, that we have a written constitution, defining its limits, and prescribing its…

— Henry Clay

A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It…

— Jefferson Davis

What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or…

— Evan Bayh

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

— Fisher Ames

“It is right that the influence of the Government should be known in every humble home as the guardian of frugal comfort and content,…

— Grover Cleveland

I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known…

— James Madison

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow doesn't say,…

— Chellie Pingree