Rule Quotes

God created us to rule, to lead and use all His riches to establish His order

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Winston Churchill

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

J. K. Galbraith

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast but never sinks.

Everett Dirksen

The supply of government exceeds the demand.

Lewis H. Lapham

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of governing.

The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

Napoléon Bonaparte

The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

Henry Ward Beecher

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities.

Abraham Lincoln

That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?

Charles de Gaulle

There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress and that is continuously incessantly and without interruption. If it's really going to work the relationship between the president and the Congress has got to be almost incestuous.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Henry Kissinger

The average man that I encounter all over the country regards government as a sort of great milk cow with its head in the clouds eating air and growing a full teat for everybody on earth.

Clarence C. Manion

To make certain that crime does not pay the government should take it over and try to run it.

G. Norman Collie

The strongest pressure in the world can be friendly pressure.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but above all try something.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days nor in the life of this administration nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.

Bernard Berenson

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.

Hubert Humphrey

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

When we got into office the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Benjamin Disraeli

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country.

Abraham Lincoln

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

Barry Goldwater

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.

George Santayana

The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is that it is an intelligible government: the mass of mankind understand it and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Friedrich von Schiller

Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Abraham Lincoln

As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.

Thomas Jefferson

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom whilst a republic is a raft which will never sink but then your feet are always in water.

The state it cannot too often be repeated does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody.

Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.

George Washington

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Honoré de Balzac

Whenever by an unfortunate occurrence of circumstances an opposition is compelled to support the government the support should be given with a kick and not a caress and should be withdrawn at the first available moment.

Randolph Churchill

To govern is to choose.

Pierre Mendes-France

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury monarchies by poverty.

Baron de Montesquieu

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.

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