Quotes About Government

What is it Aristotle said? 'Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotisms.' Yes. Populism is becoming popular in America—an old doctrine, though its adherents invariably think it is a new one, age after age.

What is it that Aristotle said: 'Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotisms.' We have approached that day.

If the middle-class has any function at all it is to work to provide us with taxes, with which we can bribe the mobs of Rome and keep them contented and docile.

A government rarely represents the people! Love of country is often confused in simple minds with love of one's government. They are rarely one; they are not synonymous. Yet," he added, mournfully, "the evil men in government are compelled to show a public face of sympathy for the oppressed and must pretend, at all times, to be one with them, seeking to rectify the very wrong they have secretly committed.

It is easier to crouch on your knees and be fed by government than it is to stand on your feet and find your own sustenance.

De una cosa podemos estar seguros, muchacho, este alivio temporal de los impuestos acabará en impuestos mayores y en un colapso final. Se trata puramente de un asunto de contabilidad. ¿Pero es que a la gente le importa el presupuesto y la dura realidad de que uno no puede gastar lo que no tiene sin ir a parar a la bancarrota? ¡No! Gritarán "¡viva!" al tirano Cinna, pensando en la ganancia inmediata a expensas de la nación.*

Aumentando los impuestos es como un gobierno cruel y monstruoso puede monopolizar todo el poder; porque entonces puede establecer un sistema de premios y castigos: premios para los que permiten la tiranía y castigos para lo que se le opongan.

It is related," said the grandfather, "that a lion, once he has tasted the blood and the flesh of a man, will eat no other meat. Our government has tasted the blood and the flesh of the people; it has tasted, suddenly, unlimited power.

Using past performance to pick tomorrow's winning mutual funds is such a bad idea that the government requires a statement similar to this: Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. Believe it!

Louise?" "Hmm? Sorry, I was distracted. What did you say?" "I said, what do you think about our Mr. Hossner here?" "I prefer not to." "I've tried that myself: ignoring the government, seeing if it would go away. It hasn't.

Te? tego próbowa?em. Ignorowa? rz?d w nadziei, ?e zniknie. Nie znikn??.

Perhaps the only permanent solution would be a more liberal Parliament, but it is beyond my expertise to suggest how we might bring that about.

Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

When the government promptly changed the range of interdiction to twelve miles, what do you suppose the partiers did? They created a Twelve Mile Limit cocktail

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

It was difficult to know which part of the government would ignite first. The Supreme Court had plenty of dry kindling: most of its justices were old men born in the previous century. Congress was eternally bickering. And no executive had ever underperformed quite as spectacularly as James Buchanan.

What if all the difficulties anticipated in the Federalist Papers—regional tensions, unscrupulous leaders, and a dysfunctional Congress—happened at precisely the same moment?

It almost seemed as if Buchanan's regime was leasing the country's name, as his friends enriched themselves and presided over a machinery of government that was lubricated with bribery, brandy, and insider deals. In New York, a lawyer, George Templeton Strong, wrote in his diary that he felt like he was reliving "the Roman Empire in its day of rotting.

In one of the most memorable lines that he ever put on paper, Van Buren wrote, "You might as well turn the current of the Niagara with a ladies fan as to prevent scheming and intrigue at Washington.

In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress.

The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.

I have a long attention span, and I am also a good scientist, and there are a lot of problems that remain in the organic agricultural movement that the government does not invest in solving.

A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.