Form Quote by Herbert Spencer

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the…

— Aristotle

Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.

— Learned Hand

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support…

— Lysander Spooner

The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation…

— Daniel Webster

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich…

— Aristotle

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the…

— Samuel Williams

Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny,…

— Aristotle

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the…

— Voltaire

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

— Charles Peguy

“These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the forms of government as the rule of man…

— Hannah Arendt

The government, which is the supreme authority in states, must be in the hands of one, or of a few, or of the many.…

— Aristotle (384â323 BC