Advantage Quote by Aristotle

The government, which is the supreme authority in states, must be in the hands of one, or of a few, or of the many.…

— Aristotle (384â323 BC

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but…

— Aristotle

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich…

— Aristotle

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule…

— Herbert Spencer

Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to…

— George F. Kennan

Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot…

— Joseph Joubert

The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with…

— Joseph Story

The government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the least educated,…

— Otto von Bismarck

Government is of the people,for the people, and by the people.

— Merliah Summers

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.

— Ernie Fletcher

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public…

— George Bancroft

We may say with truth and meaning, that governments are more or less republican, as they have more or less of the element of…

— Thomas Jefferson