Believe Quote by Christopher Hitchens

I consider the difference between a system founded on the legislatures only, and one founded on the people, to be the true difference between…

— James Madison

The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual…

— Tony Blair

“One cannot understand a political "system" detached from its societal context”

— Andrew J. Robinson

“Nothing can appear more contradictory than the principles on which the old governments began, and the condition to which society, civilisation and commerce are…

— Thomas Paine

The Founders understood that democracy was important, but if you didn't filter it through a republican system you'd be just as likely to end…

— Jonah Goldberg

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what…

— Anonymous

A political and economic system that only works for a small group at the top is a system that needs to change.

— Gavin Esler

“The essence of its failure was that it could not sustain unity. In its early stages its citizens, both patrician and plebeian, had a…

— H.G. Wells

“No one in either system could be unaware that State Security was out there, but for the ordinary citizen, uninterested in politics, lucky enough…

— Richard Overy

The real struggle between an American government and the people was one of power, which was settled when they designed their Constitution, which conceded…

— Ndabaningi Sithole

“For Croly, the entire process of popular sovereignty exercised through representative republicanism, which led to the drafting, adoption, and ratification of the United States…

— Mark R. Levin

I think - something I learned recently looking up the meaning of ideology. If you look in American encyclopedias, it says, you know, 'Rules…

— Mario Cuomo