"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."
― Jonathan Swift
Topic(s):
Government
More From Jonathan Swift
- "I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution."
- "Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
- "Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes."
More In Government
- "No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."― Anatole France
- "I think its rather peculiar. It’s not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I’d guess you’d have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government, so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God."― Paul Ryan
- "And we’ve got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money – I hate to bring this up – are pushing hot buttons."― Tony Campolo