Courage Quote by David Hume

“Governments must be made for human beings as they are, or as they are capable of speedily becoming.”

— John Stuart Mill

“the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.”

— Evan Meekins

“No government likes the clever and the honourable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of…

— Declaration of Independence

“A government of five hundred country attornies and obscure curates is not good for twenty-four millions of men, though it were chosen by eight…

— Edmund Burke

“A free society is most threatened not by uses of government that are obviously bad, but by uses of government that seem obviously good.”

— Charles Murray

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”

— Charles Slack

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as…

— John F. Kennedy

“A Government is not free to do as it pleases…. The law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as…

— David Boaz

“We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their…

— Aristotle