Elmer Eric Schattschneider: Government

Elmer Eric Schattschneider was American political scientist. Explore interesting quotes on government.
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“Government is the most successful idea in the world, but for all its success and importance it is something imperfect. There is no ideal state. After thousands of years it is still a mixture of good and evil.”

Elmer Eric Schattschneider

Source: Two Hundred Million Americans in Search of a Government (1969), p. 116

“People who do not know what government is are not likely to know what democracy is either, for democracy is only what the soft inside of the oyster looks like.”

Elmer Eric Schattschneider

Source: Two Hundred Million Americans in Search of a Government (1969), p. 35

“What is government? From the outside it looks like a security system based on the marriage of land and people, From the inside, it looks like and attempts to create a community. A government is like an oyster, hard on the outside and soft on the inside, and the outside and inside are utterly dependent on each other.”

Elmer Eric Schattschneider

Source: Two Hundred Million Americans in Search of a Government (1969), p. 24