Quotes About Government

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

Only man has law. Law must be built, do you understand me? You must build the law.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.

When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.

All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.

The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.