“An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”– Voltaire Related Quotes “Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.”– Xenophon “A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.”– Benjamin Disraeli “But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.”– Marco Rubio