Government · Skopia

Quotes

53

Political literature · Philosophical literature

In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain... And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Leviathan · 1651

★ 9.6

Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Winston Churchill

1947

★ 9.4

Essay · Political literature

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 15 · 1787

★ 7.1

Essay · Political literature

It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Federalist 51 · 1788

★ 7.0

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Books

7

The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

1532★ 8.5

Spirit of the Laws

1748★ 7.5

On the Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1762★ 7.3

Mencius

300 BC★ 7.3

Common Sense (Collected Writings)

1776★ 7.2

Seeing like a State

1998★ 6.7

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