Forms Of Government Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

  Todd Akin

  Government, Ideas, Essentials

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• We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Struggle, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.505, Wildside Press LLC

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• ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Men, Order

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.37, Library of Alexandria

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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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• A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.

  Horace Mann

  Government, People, Mad

  Horace Mann (1868). “Annual reports on education (ed. by mrs. M. Mann).”, p.687

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• Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea, if there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.

  James Madison

  Men, Ideas, People

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.24, University of Virginia Press

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• [In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert results from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.

  James Madison

  Party, Communication, Passion

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.45

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• The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most - for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Office, Aristocracy

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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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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• It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune. This necessity however exists; and the problem to be solved is, not what form of Government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

  James Madison

  Government, Evil, Perfect

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Government, Giving

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 31 Mar. 1772)

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• Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Entrepreneur, Growth

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• Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

  John McCain

  Government, Media, Thank God

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• Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live.

  George W. Bush

  Government, People, Matter

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• It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work.  Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for who’s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. That’s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government.

  Colin Quinn

  Sad, Leadership, Work

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• Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.

  Ilka Chase

  Government, Order, Democracy

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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• Gen. Tommy Franks Says That If The United States Is Hit With A Weapon Of Mass Destruction That Inflicts Large Casualties, The Constitution Will Likely Be Discarded In Favor Of A Military Form Of Government

  Tommy Franks

  Military, Government, Mass Destruction

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• I declare that this government is no longer a constitutional and moral form of government. I will deal with it, and I will obey its laws, and I will support it when it is defending our country from foreign and domestic enemies. I will vote in its elections and participate in its political debates. But I will never accept it. I aim at a restoration of constitutional and moral order.

  Lawrence Auster

  Country, Government, Order

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• If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior.

  James Madison

  Government, Names, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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