Top Government Quotes

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...

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

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.

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...

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

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

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....

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may h...

Having a Constitutional political party is a little like telling a car-jacker, "You're not allowed to do what you're doing! And if you don't stop it right now, we are going to ask you to order yoursel...

Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians.

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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".

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

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of th...

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.