Forms Of Government Quotes
153 Forms Of Government quotes by 108 unique authors
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
— Aristotle
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
— Madeleine Albright
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
— Winston Churchill
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The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control…
— Tom Clancy
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Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal…
— Karl Marx
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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
— Edward Abbey
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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was…
— Oscar Wilde
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I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by…
— Benjamin Rush
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Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
— Woodrow Wilson
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The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.
— Joseph Sobran
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The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by…
— James Madison
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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history ..... Many forms of Government have been tried, and will…
— Barack Obama
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Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the…
— William Borah
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Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.
— Lillian Hellman
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Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.
— George C. Marshall
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us…
— Samuel Johnson
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There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through…
— Benjamin Rush
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A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward our…
— Unknown Author
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If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of…
— Benjamin Rush
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