Quotes on government

history of this quote “For forms of government let fools contest; Whate’er is best administered is best.” by Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope
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“For forms of government let fools contest; Whate’er is best administered is best.”

Alexander Pope
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history of this quote “A government of laws, and not of men.” by John Adams

John Adams
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history of this quote “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” by John Adams

John Adams
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history of this quote “What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?” by John Adams

John Adams
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history of this quote “The law, in all vicissitudes of government, fluctuations of the passions, or flights of enthusiasm, will preserve a steady undeviating course; it will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imaginations, and wanton tempers of men… On the one hand it is inexorable to the cries and lamentations of the prisoners; on the other it is deaf, deaf as an adder to the clamours of the populace.” by John Adams

John Adams
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Even If You Are On the Right Track You Will Get Run Over If You Just Sit There

Tom Sims
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“Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.”

Plato
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“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.”

Alexander Hamilton
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