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“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded,…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution, drilled, fleeced,…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued,…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious,... but by those…

— Will Durant

“A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his subjects to…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose, And safe from action, valiantly advise; Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows, And being good for nothing else,…

— John Wilmot

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

— David Gergen

“SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but…

— Thomas Paine

“Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well digested and…

— John Adams

“Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the…

— Edmund Burke

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

— Fisher Ames