Forms Of Government Quotes - Page 12

• If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

  Tommy Franks

  Government, Mass Destruction, Allies

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• Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.

  E. M. Forster

  Government, Support, Democracy

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.

  Evan Esar

  Government, Voting, Citizens

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• Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.

  George Washington

  Happiness, Government, Law

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.20

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• A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.

  Earl Warren

  Responsibility, Government, Democracy

  Earl Warren (1972). “A Republic, If You Can Keep It. -”

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• The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. It Is a history, moreover, that is magnificently spontaneous; and it was therefore perhaps not entirely useless to seek to throw light on the child's judgment of moral value by a preliminary study of the social behaviour of children amongst themselves.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Eye, Deep Water

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• To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.

  Charles A. Reich

  Dream, Men, Years

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• Canadian federalism is more than a form of government. It's also a system of values that allows different people in diverse communities to live and work together in harmony for the good of all.

  Jean Chretien

  Government, People, Community

  Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.115, Vintage Canada

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• Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

  Aristotle

  Government, Discipline, Office

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