Governance Quotes

"What we need is a new age of politics for the common good." "Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society" "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government" "We need trust in the dialogue between citizens and their government" "Poverty in democracy is as much to be preferred to so-called prosperity under despots, as freedom to slavery." "The government will neither believe itself to possess the power, nor permit it to be usurped by others" "The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone" "In framing a government, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself" "He who becomes a Prince through the favor of the people should always keep on good terms with them" "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice" "A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is" "A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person" "The interests of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place" "In a republic this rule ought to be observed, that the majority should not have the predominant power."