Quotes About Government

And indeed, who can doubt that everything would be different and better, if only England were ruled by village idiots and their drunken friends?

It was too much for the Commons to digest, that rich men might have some duty to the poor.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.

The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

The majority of PSSU systems won't be in dire straits if they're cut off from other systems. For a political structure like that, there's nary any point to having a federal government. For all intents and purposes, that federal government exists to maintain the military.

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship ... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.

You keep talking, but you're not making any sense. Of course you upset someone in the government. You pretended to be the governor of New Jersey and confessed to a bunch of crimes." I can't help the small smile that's playing at the corners of my mouth. "So," I say, "how did it go over?

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world.

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Unluckily, Governments cannot be enlightened, and a Government which regards itself as a diffuser of light is the least open to enlightenment.

There everything is tolerated: the government and the guillotine, religion and the cholera. You are always acceptable to this world, you will never be missed by it. What, then, is the dominating impulse in this country without morals, without faith, without any sentiment, wherein, however, every sentiment, belief, and moral has its origin and end? It is gold and pleasure. Take

Christianity and monarchy are twin principles.

Were it not for the cabarets, would not the Government be overturned every Tuesday? Happily, by Tuesday, this people is glutted, sleeps off its pleasure, is penniless, and returns to its labor, to dry bread, stimulated by a need of material procreation, which has become a habit to it. None

If the Ministry blunders so far as to come down into the arena, we can give them a drubbing. If they are nettled by it, the thing will rankle in people's minds, and the Government will lose its hold on the masses. The newspaper risks nothing, and the authorities have everything to lose.

I did not know that bureaucracy could send its claws into our very coffins

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.