In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The government must give men and women without power a real say over what happens to them, and the means of engaging in a participative, invigorated and living democracy.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.
We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them.
A government of laws, and not of men.
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.