A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. – James Madison Tags: James Madison +4 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. – Aristotle Tags: Aristotle +6 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be. – James Baldwin Tags: James Baldwin +8 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
As long as I don’t write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. – Pierre Beaumarchais +10 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. – John Ruskin Tags: John Ruskin +10 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. – Sydney J. Harris Tags: Sydney J. Harris +14 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington Tags: George Washington +16 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. – Thomas Paine Tags: Thomas Paine +18 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. – Jonathan Swift Tags: Jonathan Swift +20 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have. – Barry Goldwater +22 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. – Denis Diderot Tags: Denis Diderot +24 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
This (Labour) government will never turn talk into action, it is time for a government that will. – Michael Howard +26 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
Democracy is direct self government, over all the people, for all the people, by all the people. – Theodore Parker +28 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. – Lord Acton +30 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. – Albert Camus Tags: Albert Camus +30 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President: I’m beginning to believe it. – Clarence Darrow Tags: Clarence Darrow +34 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
I believe this is responsible government, not as some have called it ‘Big Brother government.’ – Tony Blair +36 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. – Barry Goldwater +38 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill Tags: Winston Churchill +38 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison. – Henry David Thoreau Tags: Henry David Thoreau +42 Category: Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government | No comments