Forms Of Government Quotes - Page 10

• Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

  Paul Fussell

  Humility, Government, Lucky

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• Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same. There's only a difference of degree. We both have the same basic form of government: economic totalitarianism. In other words, the settlement to all questions, the solutions to all issues are determined not by what will make the people most healthy and happy in their bodies and their minds but by economics. Dollars or rubles.

  Tom Robbins

  Russia, Government, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.43, Bantam

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• The right of a nation to determine its own form of government does not include the right to establish a slave society (that is, to legalize the enslavement of some men by others). There is no such thing as "the right to enslave." A nation can do it, just as a man can become a criminal- but neither can do it by right.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Criminals, Doe

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.445, Penguin

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• I hold no brief for Communists, but I believe in and will defend their right to act independently within the law. I question whether members of the committee are interested in defending our form of government or whether they are attempting to suppress political opinion at odds with their own.

  Gregory Peck

  Believe, Political Opinions, Odds

  "Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life". Book by Lynn Haney, p. 167, 2003.

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• Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and forms of government or control, than existed in an entire continent at an earlier epoch.

  John Dewey

  Cities, Government, Community

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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• Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Government, Way, Form

  From remarks recorded for the "Back to God" Program of the American Legion, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. February 20, 1955.

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• You know what I like about the American form of government? They've worked things out so that you're never far from a 7-Eleven.

  George Carlin

  Government, Form, Eleven

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a series of essays called "The Iron Law of Oligarchy" and in these essays he discusses how no matter what sorts of freedoms are advertised or put into a society structure, that all societies, all form of governments - whether they be a Roman republic, whether they be a democracy, whether they be a Russian communist system, whatever, a tribe... a tribal council - all of the continuously, throughout the ages, have all converted back into an oligarchy.

  Immortal Technique

  Writing, Government, Law

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Government, Republic

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• So what's the difference between republican and democratic forms of government? John Adams captured the essence of the difference when he said, 'You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe.' Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

  Walter E. Williams

  Rights, Government, Law

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.110, Hoover Press

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• You will permit me to say, that a greater drama is now acting on this theatre than has heretofore been brought on the American tage, or any other in the world. We exhibit at present the novel and astonishing spectacle of a whole people deliberating calmly on what form of government will be most conducive to their happiness; and deciding with an unexpected degree of unanimity in favour of a system which they conceive calculated to answer the purpose.

  George Washington

  Drama, Government, People

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• A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Government, Rights, Democracy

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• Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in any perfect form of government.

  Margot Asquith

  Believe, Men, Perfect

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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• I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

  Edmund Burke

  Government, Democracy, Helping

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.583, Transaction Publishers

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• The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

  Lord Acton

  Government, Democracy, Social

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.253, Jazzybee Verlag

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• the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can represent grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.

  Hannah Arendt

  Government, Tyrants, Political

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• The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it neither our free enterprise system nor our republican form of government could long endure.... The next Republican Administration will...not only protect the cherished human right of property ownership, but will also work to help millions of Americans - particularly those from disadvantaged groups - to share in the ownership of the wealth of their nation.

  Jeffrey H Reiman

  Wisdom, Government, Long

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• The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it, neither our free enterprise system nor our republican form of government could long endure.

  Jeffrey H Reiman

  Wisdom, Government, Long

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• It was one of the great mass achievements of American civilization, and we did it because we thought if you were going to have a democratic form of government, people had to be able to read and understand complicated ideas on their own.

  Robert Hass

  Civilization, Ideas, Government

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities and nations. Democracy, above all other forms of government, requires this faith.

  Sue Halpern

  Government, Trusting Each Other, Community

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• Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

  John Allen Fraser

  Philosophy, Government, Political

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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• I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Heart, Thinking

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• The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

  John Adams

  Peace, Real, War

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• The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.

  John Adams

  Government, Numbers, Society

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.85, Hackett Publishing

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• The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now. They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty.

  John Adams

  Government, People, Liberty

  Letter to Zabdiel Adams, "Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 4", memory.loc.gov. June 21, 1776.

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