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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 democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will…

— Edmund Burke

“The arrogance of wealth and the dejection of wretchedness, capital cities of unwonted extent, a lax morality, a vulgar egotism, and a great confusion…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Almost all the prosperity of a public society and civil community does, under God, depend on their rulers. They are like the main springs…

— Jonathan Edwards

“in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable…

— Thomas Paine

No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects;…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an…

— Thomas Paine

“Beyond these there is a miserable crowd, indigent, without political rights, of no weight in the city, envious, full of hatred, and condemned by…

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the…

— Hesiod

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

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly…

— Thomas Jefferson

Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and helpless --…

— Aung San Suu Kyi