Discontent Quote by Robert Herrick

Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their…

— Aristotle

There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons…

— John Adams

“While the characters of men are forming, as is always the case in revolutions, there is a reciprocal suspicion, and a disposition to misinterpret…

— Thomas Paine

There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence…

— Andrew Jackson

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

— Joseph Sobran

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism…

— Henry Steele Commager

“The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their private actions,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers…

— Thomas Jefferson

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in…

— Woodrow Wilson

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

— Seneca the Younger

Men still have to be governed by deception.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these…

— Robert James Waller