government type Quotes

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

If we carefully consider what our constitution is, we will conclude that it is, in fact, a limited monarchy.

The United States supports the idea that every people should have the right to make a free choice as to the kind of government they want.

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

'Chinese Democracy' wasn't trying to tell China to have a democracy or anything like that. I don't have an opinion on what kind of government they should have. My thing is, I went to stay there for about three months, and everywhere I went, the people are so shielded from what's going on in the world.

The Turkish state has neither a crowned head nor a dictator.

The government of Israel is not an aviary.

I cannot be any clearer, minority governments don't work.

I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.

He that is for a government of laws is for the government of God. And he that is for a government of man is for government of a beast.

Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

Will Iraq be a democracy? The question is, 'Will America be a democracy?'

We are not and will never be an authoritarian regime.

We're not a democracy.

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

The actual form of our present government is simply a scheme of Congressional supremacy.

With regard to Turkey, I have been to Ankara. Turkey is a democracy. We certainly, we certainly, in the future, ought to encourage our ally to live up to their own democratic institutions and their own democratic ideals.

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.