Art Quote by James Harrington

A government of laws, and not of men.

— John Adams

“But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If…

— Mark R. Levin

“When we survey the wretched conditions of man, under the monarchical and hereditary systems of Government, dragged from his home by one power, or…

— Thomas Paine

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

— Giambattista Vico

Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of…

— Thomas Jefferson

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels…

— James Madison

Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the…

— Felix Frankfurter

“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may…

— James MacGregor Burns

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

— Anonymous

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“the very definition of a Republic, is "an Empire of Laws, and not of men.”

— Charles River Editors

Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.

— Milton Friedman