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It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned to the goodness… — Alexander Hamilton
The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare… — Alexander Hamilton
It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and… — Alexander Hamilton
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and… — James Monroe
That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for… — Benjamin Franklin
There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the authoritative origin and… — James Madison
It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some defect… — James Madison
It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons,… — James Madison
Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last. — George Washington
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and undermine… — Michael Parenti
For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me...I don't understand what there is in the American… — Michael Parenti
The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step… — Thomas Jefferson
Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined… — William Penn
It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one purpose… — Alexander Hamilton
If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no… — Thomas Jefferson
It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it, may forget their… — James Madison
But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of… — Alexander Hamilton
The rewards that will flow from a successful shift to a low carbon economy are high. Neither governments nor business can afford to let these… — Margaret Beckett
Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always… — Alexander McCall Smith
As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind, compassionate. But in… — Dean Koontz
I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money...And they who control the credit… — Reginald McKenna
It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke… — H.G. Wells
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium,… — G. Edward Griffin
The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of paper upon which… — Ludwig von Mises
I'm not at liberty to discuss the governments knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject! — Richard M. Nixon

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