The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. Read Summary
Every cook has to learn how to govern the state. Read Summary
Any cook should be able to run the country. Read Summary
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. Read Summary
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones. Read Summary
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Read Summary
The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard. Read Summary
Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives. Read Summary
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. Read Summary
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied. Read Summary
Power ought to serve as a check to power. Read Summary
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state. Read Summary
You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy. Read Summary
To rule is easy, to govern difficult. Read Summary
Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism. Read Summary
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. Read Summary
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Read Summary
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. Read Summary
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. Read Summary
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. Read Summary