Advantage Quote by Henry David Thoreau

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the…

— Anonymous

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

— Giambattista Vico

There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons…

— John Adams

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

— Anonymous

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and…

— James Madison

Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their…

— Aristotle

“The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their private actions,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by…

— Edmund Burke

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

— John Lyly

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is wrong.

— Anonymous