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Representative Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the…
- The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of…
- When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good…
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- If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management… — John Quincy Adams
- Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. — Robert Bork
- The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate… — Clive Bell
- Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith… — Shadia Drury
- The genuine Guru is God's representative and he speaks about God and nothing else. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have… — Peter DeFazio
- I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety… — Steve Ballmer
- Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system,… — Matt Taibbi