System Quotes

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

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

Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

Democracy is finished in England.

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

You can get from a politician whatever you demand in this country. The great irony is that everybody complains about how it runs but not enough people direct their force and power directly at the politicians and make demands upon them. Ours is a system that abhors remoteness. If you're remote from this political system, it'll kill you.

It's important we understand our system seeks justice and not revenge.

A fair judicial system takes time to work.

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.

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

This country is a republic.

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

The government and people are inseparable under our system. We could not separate the government from the people if we would, and we would not if we could. This unity is the strength of our political structure.

Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.

An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.

We are a democratic - we are living in democracy.

In a highly developed society, the Establishment cannot survive without the obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given small rewards to keep the system going: the soldiers and police, teachers and ministers, administrators and social workers, technicians and production workers, In a highly developed society, the Establishment cannot survive without the obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given small rewards to keep the system going: the soldiers and police, teachers and ministers, administrators and social workers, technicians and production workers, doctors, lawyers, nurses, transport and communication workers, garbagemen and firemen. These people -- the employed, the somewhat privileged -- are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

Democracy is that system of government under which the people, having 35,717,342 native-born whites to choose from, including thousands who are handsome and many who are wise, pick out a Coolidge to be head of the State.

Failures happen in any system.

The unambigious fact is that U.S. capitalism is a mechanism for looting the many for the benefit of the few.

You give me enough shots, I'll average 20. You give me a particular system where I stick close to the basket, I'll average 10 rebounds.