Top Government Quotes

Think what it implies when you say that a country needs leaders. In your day-to-day life, you interact with all sorts of other individuals. And that's all society is: the collective name for lots of I...

The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or...

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.

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and...

In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running of it. If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it....

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to sur...

Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians.

Money is not as good as power, but power is as good as money.

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.

One of the most unique aspects among many about the USA is that our transitions of 'power' have almost always been peaceful. This is very unique in all of history and in the world today".

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and robbers.

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such pur...

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.