Quotes About Government

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.

The combination of royal, aristocratic, and democratic power makes only a democracy.

The Eisenhower administration, and Ike himself, bear heavy responsibility for snuffing out responsible government in Iran.

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Dès qu'on entre en lutte contre la guerre, on entre en lutte contre le gouvernement.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

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.

Human rights and freedoms protect us against arbitrary government.

It's our job to look at the issues and elect people. Once we've done that, that's our part over with. It's not up to us to run the country.

Power is a corruption, and any society which operates from a power base is a corrupt society.

Every day there were reports of women being raped or mutilated, sometimes even in their own homes. Nothing was done to prevent it on account of the governments being mostly men.

France actually had the first ever pension schemes: the Invalides, a hostel built by Louis XIV and his prime minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–83), for disabled soldiers.

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

This street dead-ends in a fishbowl of concrete: a line of shops to the right, some formidable, blockish government buildings to the left, and a wall directly in front, which is topped with a second wall, which is topped with a third wall, which is topped with razor wire and mounted cameras. It's behind this wall, stretching high up into the sky, that the American flag moves stiffly in the mild wind. Only a few feet away from it, on this side of the fence, a Mexican flag also flies.

way the government clears migrants from the trains in some places, spending millions of pesos and dollars to build those track-fences in Oaxaca and Chiapas and Mexico state, all while turning a blind eye in other locations.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

They discussed several other options, including sending it to the president to help him run the government. But they didn't think he would want money meant for a bribe, either. In the end, they snuck upstairs to the bathroom, where they ripped up the five-dollar bill and flushed the pieces down the toilet, laughing so hard they almost woke up Lydia.

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.