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"The problem to be solved is not what form of government is perfect but which of the forms is least imperfect"
James Madison
"The capacity for self-government and the determination to protect their own liberties must resist usurpations as well as avoid making them "
James Madison
"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Justice is the end of government It is the end of civil society It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained or until liberty be lost in the pursuit"
James Madison
"In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics"
George Orwell
"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few"
David Hume
"The bigger concern may be that now we have a rapidly growing economy and ample capital, but a failure of the government and society, to allocate it properly."
Noam Chomsky
"The principle that property should be protected and instability reduced is right, but the specific policies need to be carefully crafted."
Noam Chomsky
"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best"
Thomas Sowell
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong"
Thomas Sowell
"Everything is governed by interest "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Religion must indeed be reckoned among the matters of highest importance to the state, for when religion is ruined, the constitution follows."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law"
Thomas Hobbes
"The law always limits every power it gives."
David Hume
"Justice must always question itself just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions"
Michel Foucault
"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure"
Bertrand Russell
"I think the government must govern as the citizens allow it to govern."
Vladimir Putin
"The strengthening of our statehood is at times deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism."
Vladimir Putin
"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it"
Laozi
"The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership"
Chinua Achebe
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