Representative Government Quotes

Representative Government Quote of the day

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative.

There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of the representative government, cannot exist.

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.