Popular Government Quotes

15 Popular Government quotes by 12 unique authors

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. — George Washington
It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people. — Richard Henry Lee
`Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every… — George Washington
Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace… — Jefferson Davis
No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully… — Chester A. Arthur
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular… — Joseph Pulitzer
Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less. — Herbert Croly
Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at… — William Howard Taft
Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the church of Rome prevail here, our Constitution would fall. The two cannot exist together. They… — Richard Thompson
Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government. — Walter Lippmann
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and… — Joseph Pulitzer
In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense. — Theodore Roosevelt
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. — James Madison

Who Wrote These Popular Government Quotes

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