Robert Lepage Quotes

A country can live under a monarchy or a republic, with a parliamentary or a presidential system, under communism or fascism. But it cannot live in anarchy.

You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence democracy, and the other tyranny.

We're not a democracy.

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or counsuls or other magistrates are to be established in authority over them, and if there is a legitimate cause, the people can change a kingdom into an aristocracy or an aristocracy into a democracy, and vice versa.

Our system of government, our form of democracy, would not work for China, just like China's system would not work for us.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy a few people have their way; in a democracy no one has his way.

It is important to remember there still exist other forms of government in the world today, and that dozens of foreign countries still long for a democracy such as ours to be imposed on them..

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

Can you get a democracy in Saudi Arabia? These people talk about theocracy, not democracy. So I think it's a very tough situation.

The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

Rather than living in a democracy, we are living in a benevolent oligarchy.

Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't have done — we were too trained in English democracy to sit down under a dictatorship which is what the American system really is.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock. A republic is a raft that will never sink.

Israel is not an anarchy.

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.