Happiness Quote by Grover Cleveland

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

— Charles Slack

“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we…

— Edmund Burke

“In democracies, by contrast, the propaganda of the press and public opinion relentlessly promised servants that they, too, could reach the pinnacles of society…

— Alain de Botton

“People are complicated creatures, with a nuanced set of private and public incentives, and that our behavior is enormously influenced by circumstances.”

— Steven D. Levitt

“To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“While property continues to be pretty equally divided, and a considerable share of information pervades the community; the tendency of the people's suffrages, will…

— Alexander Hamilton

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes,”

— Andrew Jackson

“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

“Is not that government both unjust and ungrateful, that is so prodigal of its favours to those that are called gentlemen, or goldsmiths, or…

— Thomas More Hoban

“Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the…

— Frank Herbert

“The public must be reduced to passivity in the political realm, but for submissiveness to become a reliable trait, it must be entrenched in…

— Noam Chomsky

“This demonstrated to me that those who regard universal suffrage as a guarantee for good choices are under a complete illusion. Universal suffrage has…

— Alexis de Tocqueville