Easy Quote by David Hume

The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

— Aristotle

“That of all the 'oracies (aristocracy and democracy included) hypocrisy is the most flourishing.”

— James Fenimore Cooper

“No natural forces determine income, wealth, and the quality of human life. We make the decisions about who will prosper and who will not—or…

— David Cay Johnston

But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that…

— James Madison

[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than…

— Algernon Sidney

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Democracies are not lucky. They do not attract civic-minded leaders by chance. Rather, they attract survival-oriented leaders who understand that, given their dependence on…

— Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a…

— James Madison

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly…

— Thomas Jefferson

As I have said before, our society cannot be truly prosperous until it respects the rights of the most vulnerable among us.

— Luther Strange

“The study of human institutions is always a search for the most tolerable imperfections.”

— Richard Allen Epstein