Ambition Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their own ends,…

— N. T. Wright

“It seems to be difficult if not impossible for human beings to avoid thinking of government as mystical entity with a nature and a…

— H.L. Mencken

The human spirit is stronger than any government or institution.

— Fela Kuti

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that…

— Harry S Truman

We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us…

— John Adams

An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their…

— Aristotle

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly…

— Thomas Jefferson

“when the highest virtues of mankind cannot be accomplished fully through voluntary actions, the greater good demands that the government compel people to do…

— S.W. Southwick

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who…

— Geoff Mulgan