Quotes About Government

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

It should be remembered that men of courage, integrity, and principle can stand up to Big Brother and resist the headlong march into economic tyranny.

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.

The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!

We are all the President's men.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?

Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

A man with a long history of racial discrimination should never run our government.