Political Sayings
93 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 15 authors
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All hereditary government is in its nature tyranny.
Government, by being established on a false system, is a nursery of fraud and corruption, and needs to be reformed.
Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government.
Government is no farther necessary than to supply the few cases to which society and civilization are not conveniently competent.
A republic is government of right, and not of might.
A nation has not to seek for a government, but to form one.
The more perfect civilization is, the less occasion has it for government, because the more does it regulate its own affairs, and govern itself.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered.
The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government.
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
The French Republic needs no slaves.