Action Quote by Plato

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

“It seems to be difficult if not impossible for human beings to avoid thinking of government as mystical entity with a nature and a…

— H.L. Mencken

No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by…

— Thomas Jefferson

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the…

— Mario Bunge

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

Even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against its people;…

— Robert Kennedy

Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to reconcile order…

— Leo Strauss

“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by…

— Edmund Burke

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

— Robert Musil

“The key players, it turns out, are those who refuse to be credentialed or curbed by traditional modes of power, who understand that the…

— Walter Brueggemann

It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government…

— James Madison