Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: political-philosophy
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Gerald R. FordTags: political-philosophy government
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Ronald ReaganTags: inspirational politics political-philosophy freedom-of-choice government
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolò MachiavelliTags: political-philosophy
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald ReaganTags: democracy political-philosophy government
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart MillTags: paraphrased political-philosophy duty political us-history
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
Thomas JeffersonTags: political-philosophy government
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
Tom StoppardTags: democracy political-philosophy
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas JeffersonTags: politics liberty political-philosophy
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
William F. Buckley Jr.Tags: democracy political-philosophy diversity
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