Government Quotes - Page 2

The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.

Seneca

China has no income tax no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.

In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.

We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.

Charles Evans Hughes

Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.

Abraham Lincoln

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

Thomas E. Dewey

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper and make it worthless by applying ink.

Ludwig van Moses

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the crown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter! - all his force dares not cross the threshhold of the ruined tenement!

William Pitt the Elder

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

George Bernard Shaw

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.

A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells and when I give a man an office I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States but I never saw the Government of the United States.

The State that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

The weak have one weapon - the errors of those who think they are strong.

Georges Bidault

Government in the last analysis is organised opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion there is likely to be bad government which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right.

Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Milton Friedman

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production of bad government to encourage consumption.

Jean Baptiste Say

Bureaucracy the rule of no one has become the modern form of despotism.

I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter.

Harold Macmillan

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Dean William R. Inge

It would be desirable if every government when it comes to power should have its old speeches burnt.

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

Reinhold Niebuhr

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Rosamond Lehmann

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay.

Walter Savage Landor

The enemies of Freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

Dean William R. Inge

The entire civil service is like a fortress made of papers forms and red tape.

Alexander Ostrovsky

The king reigns but does not govern.

The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.

John S. Caldwell

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

We have a tried and tested system of government that in being so flexible exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh.

When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S. Truman

While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Abraham Lincoln

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

A difficulty for every solution.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Dean William R. Inge

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

Laurence J. Peter

At certain times of grave national stress when that rag-bag called the British Constitution is in grave danger of coming unstuck thank heaven for the big safety-pin at the top that keeps it together.

Anonymous

I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the Boston telephone book than by the Faculty of Harvard University.

William F. Buckley

The road to democracy is not a freeway. It is a toll road on which we pay by accepting and carrying out our civic responsibilities.

Kings struggle to rule over nations,men struggle to rule over themselves;God effortlessly rules the universe.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A ruler who is loved is greater than a ruler who is feared.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you despise your people,you will disregard them.If you hate your people,you will harm them.If you esteem your people,you will serve them.If you love your people,you will even die for them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Lead rationally.Lead responsibly.Lead resiliently.Lead reliably.

Matshona Dhliwayo

What supporters say about their leadertells men a third about who he is.What supporters do for their leadertells men two thirds about who he is.What supporters give up for their leadertells men all of who he is.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!

Mehmet Murat ildan

While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.

Abraham Lincoln

Injustice and lawlessness is the greatest terror a government can ever enforce on its own people!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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

Mehmet Murat ildan

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