Contribution Quote by Daniel Webster

Governments are not representative.

— Noam Chomsky

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

— Noam Chomsky

Laws are the DNA of government. They must evolve with time.

— Narendra Modi

The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that…

— John Locke

Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to…

— George F. Kennan

The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as…

— James Madison

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

— George Santayana

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

— Giambattista Vico

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create…

— Thaddeus Stevens

Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot…

— Joseph Joubert