Top Government Quotes

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

One of the most important qualities of a president is the ability to inspire, to bring people together for the common good.

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.

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...

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational...

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

With modern technology it is the easiest of tasks for a media, guided by a narrow group of political manipulators, to speak constantly of democracy and freedom while urging regime changes everywhere o...

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensate...

The one who love power becomes dictator and one who admires power becomes slave.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out of constitutional shape, converting it into a copy of...

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

If you think that you are living in a stupid country, you can be sure that you are being governed by the most stupid people!

There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.

All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberati...

[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process a...

Statism is an unnatural disaster.

The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest.

The corporate government is heavily influenced by the utility company cartel.

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)