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Providence delegates to the supreme magistrate the same power for the good of men which that supreme magistrate transfers to those several substitutes who act under him.: Joseph Addison

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.: Joseph Addison

A tenacious adherence to the rights and liberties transmitted from a wise and virtuous ancestry, public spirit, and a love of one’s country, are the support and ornaments of government.: Joseph Addison

If friends to a government forbear their assistance, they put it in the power of a few desperate men to ruin the welfare of those who are superior to them in strength and interest.: Joseph Addison

If he is for an exclusion of fear, which is supposed to have some influence in every law, he opposes himself to every government.: Joseph Addison

The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.: Joseph Addison

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.: Francis Atterbury

When any of the four pillars of government are mainly shaken, or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure), men had need to pray for fair weather.: Francis Bacon

It is of perilous consequence that foreigners should have authoritative influence upon the subjects of any prince.: Isaac Barrow

The very confession that a government wants either amendment in its conformation or relief to great distress, causes it to lose half its reputation, and as great a proportion of its strength as depends upon that reputation.: Edmund Burke

At some time or other, to be sure, all the beginners of dynasties were chosen by those who called them to govern.: Edmund Burke

To demonstrate the eternal difference between a true and severe friend to the monarchy, and a slippery sycophant of the court.: Edmund Burke

The natural effect of fidelity, clemency, kindness, in governors, is peace, good-will, order, and esteem on the part of the governed.: Edmund Burke

Of governments, that of the mob is the most sanguinary, that of soldiers the most expensive, and that of civilians the most vexatious.: Charles Caleb Colton

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride, and folly than we are taxed by government.: Benjamin Franklin

Though there be a kind of natural right in the noble, wise, and virtuous, to govern them which are of a servile disposition; nevertheless, for manifestation of this their right the assent of them who are to be governed seemeth necessary.: Richard Hooker

The surest way of governing, both in a private family and a kingdom, is for a husband and a prince sometimes to drop their prerogative.: Thomas Hughes

When a new government is established, by whatever means, the people are commonly dissatisfied with it.: David Hume

All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.: Thomas Jefferson

In elective governments there is a tacit covenant that the king of their own making shall make his makers princes.: Roger L’Estrange

Civil government is the proper remedy for the inconveniences of a state of nature.: John Locke

Self-love will make men partial to themselves and friends, and ill-nature, passion, and revenge will carry them too far in punishing others; and therefore God hath certainly appointed government to restrain the partiality and violence of men.: John Locke

Their consciences oblige them to submit to that dominion which their governors had a right to exercise over them.: John Locke

Men may put government into what hands they please.: John Locke

We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority, before we can know who has a right to succeed him in it.: John Locke

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.: Sir James Mackintosh

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable.: James Madison

That one human being will desire to render the person and property of another subservient to his pleasures, notwithstanding the pain or loss of pleasure which it may occasion to that other individual, is the foundation of government.: James Mill

Put conditions and take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their first instalment, to do impartial justice by law.: John Milton

A man must first govern himself ere he be fit to govern a family, and his family, ere he be fit to bear the government in the commonwealth.: Sir Walter Raleigh

They that govern most make least noise. You see when they row in a barge, they that do drudgery-work, slash, and puff, and sweat; but he that governs sits quietly at the stern, and scarce is seen to stir.: John Selden

The worst kind of oligarchy is, when men are governed indeed by a few, and yet are not taught to know what those few be whom they should obey.: Sir Philip Sidney

Government is an art above the attainment of an ordinary genius.: Robert South

It is a proposition of eternal verity, that none can govern while he is despised.: Robert South

What makes a governor justly despised is viciousness and ill morals. Virtue must tip the preacher’s tongue and the ruler’s sceptre with authority.: Robert South

Of contempt, and the malign hostile influence it has upon government, every man’s experience will inform him.: Robert South

A third thing that makes a government justly despised is fearfulness of, and mean compliances with, bold popular offenders.: Robert South

The three forms of government have their several perfections, and are subject to their several depravations: however, few states are ruined by defect in their institution, but generally by corruption of manners.: Jonathan Swift

Hereditary right should be kept sacred; not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.: Jonathan Swift

An hereditary right is to be preferred before election, because the government is so disposed that it almost executes itself; and upon the death of a prince the administration goes on without any rub or interruption.: Jonathan Swift

Great changes may be made in a government, yet the form continue; but large intervals of time must pass between every such innovation, enough to make it of a piece with the constitution.: Jonathan Swift

It may pass for a maxim in state, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.: Jonathan Swift

When the balance of power is duly fixed in a state, nothing is more dangerous or unwise than to give way to the first steps of popular encroachment.: Jonathan Swift

In countries of freedom, princes are bound to protect their subjects in liberty, property, and religion, to receive their petitions and redress their grievances.: Jonathan Swift

From the practice of the wisest nations, when a prince was laid aside for maladministration, the nobles and people did resume the administration of the supreme power.: Jonathan Swift

Of the several forms of government that have been or are in the world, that cause seems commonly the better that has the better advocate, or is advantaged by fresher experience.: Sir William Temple

All government may be esteemed to grow strong or weak as the general opinion in those that govern is seen to lessen or increase.: Sir William Temple

A government which by alienating the affections, losing the opinions, and crossing the interests, of the people, leaves out of its compass the greatest part of their consent, may justly be said, in the same degree it loses ground, to narrow its bottom.: Sir William Temple

Frugal and industrious men are friendly to the established government, as the idle and expensive are dangerous.: Sir William Temple

Religion hath a good influence upon the people to make them obedient to government and peaceable one towards another.: John Tillotson

The protection of religion is indispensable to all governments.: Bishop William Warburton

The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions, or the anarchy of humours.: Dr. Benjamin Whichcote

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