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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about prejudice

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about power

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Quote by Federico Fellini about advertising

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

Quote by William Godwin about conscience

Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about mistake, enemies, americans, country, faith, people

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about present

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about man

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about rules, man, people

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about family, mother, children, things

Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about truth

Truth is the glue that holds our government together.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about truth

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about guvernement, contentment

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about guvernement

The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government... Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed...

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about guvernement, judges, people, public, rightness, good, good luck

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about guvernement, justice, reason, man

Originally the League was forbidden to touch the subject of tariffs, and there was a strong predisposition to regard banking as a mystery that must be removed entirely from the purview of governments.

Quote by Arthur Henderson

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Quote by Frank Herbert about common sense, sense, contentment

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

Quote by Molly Ivins about glory, nation

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about happiness, moment

An acceptable level of employment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about work