Always Quote by Charles de Secondat

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

— Baron de Montesquieu

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

— Baron de Montesquieu

It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular…

— Herbert Spencer

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

— Will Durant

Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will…

— Simon Bolivar

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to…

— Hannah Arendt

Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes over time…

— John McDonnell

The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory…

— Anonymous

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

— Tony Abbott

Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and…

— Samuel Johnson

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

— John Sharp Williams