Age Quote by Thomas Paine

“Governments must be made for human beings as they are, or as they are capable of speedily becoming.”

— John Stuart Mill

“for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

— George Washington

“Governments too steady and uniform, as they are seldom free, so are they, in the judgment of some attended with another sensible inconvenience: they…

— David Hume

“The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also,Government is for the living, and not for the dead;…

— Thomas Paine

“[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning;”

— David Hume

“We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around.”

— Ronald Reagan

“One of the (many) problems with government is that they are usually so preoccupied with whether or not they can do something that they…

— Michel Templet

“purpose of actually changing the country. Changing it quickly, radically, and truly.”

— Michael Wolff

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

— Giambattista Vico

“Government is not moved by sympathy. It is moved by ingenuity.”

— Enock Maregesi