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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 is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
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John Adams (1735 - 1826)
We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
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Unknown, (attributed incorrectly to James Madison)
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, November 11, 1947
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, May 13, 1940
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, November 12, 1936
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
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Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.
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Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
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Lord William Beveridge (1879 - 1963)
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