Top Government Quotes

There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Government Definition

(n.) The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.

(n.) The mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law.

(n.) The right or power of governing; authority.

(n.) The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration.

(n.) The body politic governed by one authority; a state; as, the governments of Europe.

(n.) Management of the limbs or body.

(n.) The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case.

Even the richest person, provided the riches comes from mutually beneficial exchange, does not need to give anything "back" to the community, because this person took nothing out of the community. Ind...

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

I realized that the legal system was corrupt when I went to court and the judge imposed a very short time limit on my evidence submission before removing my legal rights to free speech.

Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and t...

Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based "philosophy," which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it "progressive".

The expenses of government, having for their object the interests of all, should be borne by every one, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honoured...

We hear the world governments talking about peace but we know each government is busy secretly making weapons capable of destroying the entire planet.

Set men up to rule their fellow-men, to treat them as mere soulless material with which they may deal as they please, and the consequence is that you sweep away every moral landmark and turn this worl...

Bad governments always lie because telling the truth requires honour and courage!

[Voltaire] theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if they do not bring on civil war, at least destroy national unity; it is suited only to small states pr...

My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don't fully implement it, when you keep enough capitalism around to pay socialism's bills, at least for a time. It's the difference...

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

We owe our loyalty to each other and to our children's children, not to party politics.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have...

In any country where there is a dishonorable government, there is certainly a dishonorable nation!

Decades of corporate government deregulation and reduced funding of important government departments has the country well along the path to a lawless society.

Mankind will never know peace until the last politician is strangled to death with the entrails of the last priest.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.