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The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are dead weights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians.
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The worst government is the most moral.
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The worst thing in the world, next to anarchy, is government.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Themistocles said, ‘The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; you son governs you.’
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Themistocles said, ‘The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.’- Plutarch
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There be three sorts of government–monarchical, aristocratical, democratical; and they are apt to fall three several ways into ruin–the first, by tyranny; the second, by ambition; the last, by tumults. A commonwealth grounded upon any one of these is not of long continuance; but, wisely mingled, each guards the other and makes that government exact.
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There is danger from all men; The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.’ Benjamin Franklin
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There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.
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There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.
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There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I’m not a criminal. The parole board knows I’m not a criminal.- Jack Kevorkian
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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the ‘money touch,’ but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.
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There is what I call the American idea. . . . This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy,–that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness’ sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.
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There was a State without kings or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had elected, and equal laws which it had framed.
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There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.
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Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavor in continual motion; To which is fixed as an aim or butt Obedience; for so work the honeybees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king, and officers of sorts, Where some like magistrates correct at home, Others like merchants venture trade abroad, Others like soldiers armed in their stings Make boot upon the summer’s velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor, Who, busied in his majesties, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice with his surly hum Delivering o’er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone.
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There’s nothing hard about acting except the long hours.
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They have proved themselves offensive partisans and unscrupulous manipulators of local party management.
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This end (Robespierre’s theories) was the representative sovereignty of all the citizens concentrated in an election as extensive as the people themselves, and acting by the people, and for the people in an elective council, which should be all the government.
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