Quotes About Government

A mí me parece que un país civilizado es aquel en que uno no tiene la necesidad de perder el tiempo con la política

Lo único que sé es que los políticos no son ni de derechas ni de izquierdas: son sólo políticos. Lo único que les interesa es el poder.

Al empezar la democracia, el nacionalismo instauró en Cataluña una cleptocracia clientelar. O sea, el gobierno autonómico robaba a los ciudadanos y el producto del saqueo se lo repartían entre el partido del gobierno y las familias del partido del gobierno, empezando por la familia del presidente.

en España tenemos una sanidad y una educación pública que funcionan razonablemente bien, pero no tenemos una vivienda pública digna de tal nombre.

We must remember that what our governments are doing today will set the tone for future administrations. The very powers that may be exercised, perhaps for adequate reasons today, may be exercised later for totally inadequate and perhaps even for objectionable reasons. It is always unsafe to weaken on principles.

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

I believe compulsory labor is less opposed to liberty than taxes.

A people who never misused the powers of government would never misuse independence, and a people which always governed itself well would not need to be governed.

les 8 900 milliards de dollars que les gouvernements des États industriels ont versés en 2008-2009 à leurs banques respectives correspondent à soixante-quinze ans d'aide publique au développement... (p. 87)

Money culture recognises no currency but its own. Whatever is not money, whatever is not making money, is useless to it. The entire efforts of our government as directed through our society are efforts towards making more and more money. This favours the survival of the dullest.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me? the State may be given up for lost.

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.

The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.

If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise his laws would minister to his passions..

Government in its infancy had no regular and permanent form. For want of a sufficient fund of philosophy and experience, men could see no further than the present inconveniences, and never thought of providing remedies for future ones, but in proportion as they arose.

La liberté n'est dans aucune forme de gouvernement, elle est dans le coeur de l'homme libre ; il la porte partout avec lui. L'homme vil porte partout la servitude. L'un serait esclave à Genève, et l'autre libre à Paris.

From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.

We may add that frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or remissness on the part of the government. There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good. The State has no right to put to death, even for the sake of making an example, any one whom it can leave alive without danger.

How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the subjects obeying their prince, the prince obeying the laws, and the laws being equitable and always directed to the good of the public?

the despot assures his subjects civil tranquillity.

Dans tout pays qui se dépeuple, l'état tend à sa ruine ; et le pays qui peuple le plus, fût-il le plus pauvre, est infailliblement le mieux gouverné.