Forms Of Government Quotes - Page 7

• No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

  Don Marquis

  Government, Matter, Administration

  Don Marquis (1935). “Archy does his part”

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• Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Father, Power, Government

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• People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Government, People

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.282, University of Chicago Press

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• It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Government, Safe, Republican

  Timothy Thomas Fortune (1884). “Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South”

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• The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics

  Orson Pratt

  Government, Soul, Kingdoms

  Orson Pratt, John Taylor, William Gibson (O.B.E.) (1851). “A Series of Pamphlets”, p.21

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• Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail.

  John C. Calhoun

  Government, America, Majority

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 6”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

  George Washington

  Character, Government, Revolution

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.140

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• Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

  Samuel Horsley

  Government, Safety, May

  Samuel Horsley (1827). “Sermons”, p.104

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• Inspired men have been raised up, who have given us our form of government, and the code of laws by which we are controlled, the best ever evolved by man, so far as we are able to judge. The Lord has strengthened the arms of the patriots who have defended us against the assaults of all those who have come up against us, and delivered us until today, from those who would have torn us asunder. Against all opposition, I sometimes think almost against ourselves, the Lord has brought us to our present condition, until this nation, like a city set on a hill, has become the light of the world.

  Anthony W. Ivins

  Men, Thinking, Light

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• It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis - with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy : capitalism and its parliamentary form of government.

  Ayn Rand

  Party, Fighting, Government

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.171, Penguin

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• Democracy is not merely a form of Government.
  It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
  It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards our fellow men.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Attitude, Men, Democracy

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• Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dog, Government, Democracy

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe”, p.379, Doubleday

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• Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Men, Liberty

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.524, Courier Corporation

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• Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.

  Albert Einstein

  Taken, Mean, Class

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.731, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

  Aristotle

  Men, Form, Evident

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.223, Aristotle

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• The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.

  Aristotle

  Government, Law, Justice

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

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• Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. Our government does not copy our neighbors', but is an example to them. It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while there exists equal justice to all and alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit

  Pericles

  Hands, Government, Justice

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• If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought upunder monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Freedom, School, Government

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• The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Government, Democracy, Moral

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• In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

  Edmund Burke

  Government, People, Form

  'A Tract on the Popery Laws' ch. 3, pt. 1 in 'The Works' vol. 5 (1812)

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• God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Heart, Men, Behaviour

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• It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.

  Aeschines

  Government, Law, Democracy

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• Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Democracy, World War 2

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Struggle, Fall

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• I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.

  Samuel Adams

  Believe, Men, Republican

  Statement on April 14, 1785, "The Writings of Samuel Adams", Book edited by Harry A. Cushing, 1904.

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