Polity Quotes

32 quotes by 27 authors

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the… — Annie Besant
That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art… — Thomas Huxley
Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that… — Barbara Jordan
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us. — Ben Jonson
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as… — James Madison
No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin sisters,… — James Henley Thornwell
In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state. — Aristotle
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of… — Edmund Burke
Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the… — Michel de Montaigne
The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from… — Aristotle
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized… — Ezra Stiles
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. — Ezra Stiles
Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals. — John Stuart Mill
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized… — Ezra Stiles
Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the economy,… — Robert Higgs
The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands self-expression . — Thurgood Marshall
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity… — Ralph Adams Cram
In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to… — Zygmunt Bauman
It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as… — Walter Bagehot

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