Attention Quote by George Washington

To say or imply that the foundation exists only on the sufferance of government is to reason from the untenable notion that the citizen…

— Richard Cornuelle

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

— James Madison

“The foundation of government is . . . laid, not in imaginary rights of men, (which at best is a confusion of judicial with…

— Edmund Burke

There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to…

— Thomas Paine

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple…

— Thomas Paine

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.

— Ernie Fletcher

“What is needed is a growth in consciousness, not a growth of government.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

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

To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.

— Caleb Cushing

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

— Marilyn Monroe

Whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alteror to abolish it, &…

— Anonymous