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Quote by Justinian I

“The safety of the state is the highest law.”

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Justinian I, the fifth Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, was born in 482 and died on November 14, 565. During his reign, he implemented a series of reforms, including legal, administrative, and military reforms, which had a profound impact on the prosperity and stability of the Byzantine Empire. more

“The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.”

Source: An autobiography of Abraham Lincoln: consisting of the personal portions of his letters, speeches and conversations

“All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.”

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Book:Essays, English and American

Source: Essays, English and American

“Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.”

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Book:Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes

Source: Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes

“The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.”

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Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.”

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Book:The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus

Source: The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus

“As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived, it seems strictly consonant to the republican theory, to recur to the same original authority, not only whenever it may be necessary to enlarge, diminish, or new-model the powers of the government, but also whenever any one of the departments may commit encroachments on the chartered authorities of the others.”

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Book:The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States

Source: The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States

“In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.”

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Author:James Madison

“I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.”