Body Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of God, the…

— John Quincy Adams

Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.

— Howard W. Koch

It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the…

— Georg Buchner

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented…

— W. H. Auden

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.…

— Aristotle

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration…

— Albert Einstein

Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the nature of…

— Robert Bellarmine

“A Government is not free to do as it pleases…. The law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as…

— David Boaz

“The consequence of this, morally, is that the individual is of less significance than the state. The individual’s empirical, day-to-day interests are of a…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

“When a government turns from following the will of its people to willing its people to follow — acting according to its own prerogatives…

— Ben Carson