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Forms Of Government Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would…
- Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind, my…
- Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into…
- The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
- Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to…
More Forms Of Government Quotes
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from… — Ambrose Bierce
- While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most… — Madeleine Albright
- It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. — Winston Churchill
- The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If… — Tom Clancy
- Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice… — Karl Marx
- All forms of government are pernicious, including good government. — Edward Abbey
- The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how… — Oscar Wilde
- I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles… — Benjamin Rush
- Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. — Woodrow Wilson