Top Government Quotes

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

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...

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.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

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...

Statism ends with an eye roll.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

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

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...

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

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...

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

All government, of course, is against liberty.

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.

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!

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...

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)

As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.

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...