Certain Quote by James Madison

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

— Tom Robbins

Let us hold fast the great truth, that communities are responsible, as well as individuals; that no government is respectable which is not just.…

— Daniel Webster

But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a…

— James Madison

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent…

— Orson Pratt

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

— Edward Abbey

To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at…

— Henry David Thoreau

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

— Pythagoras

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public…

— George Bancroft

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and…

— John Adams

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws, the proper definition of rights, and…

— Sam Houston

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society…

— Charles Colson