Cobblers Quote by Plato

Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government…

— John Jay

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

— Karl Marx

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

— Aesop

“We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot box, the…

— Howard Zinn

The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not wrought a…

— Alexander Hamilton

The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority, to make…

— Alexander Hamilton

“We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the Legislatures,…

— Ignatius Donnelly

“We may wonder how the ability to profit from land fosters social dysfunction, but once we realize the extent to which community wealth is…

— Martin Adams

Today many politicians suggest that where the federal government does not act, there must be anarchy. That view is odd, blinkering out the work…

— Amity Shlaes

A community is like the ones who govern it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson