Quotes About Government

Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle.

In the tired hand of a dying man, Theodore Senior had written: "The 'Machine politicians' have shown their colors... I feel sorry for the country however as it shows the power of partisan politicians who think of nothing higher than their own interests, and I feel for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.

ni los unos, ni los otros creían que se avanzaría tanto y que el impulso separatista se haría tan extenso y dinámico. En este terreno la responsabilidad del gobierno español es considerable. Vio el independentismo como un proyecto inviable acariciado por unos pocos. Como tenía de su parte la ley y la fuerza, nunca quiso abordar el problema precisamente cuando no existía.

Se topó con uno de esos grupos de forajidos que usa el gobierno, mi amigo. Ni más ni menos.

Social Security is neither social, nor secure.

If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government ' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.

I am against all forms of government, including good government.

It seems that the U.S. Government—what country is that?—has got another war going somewhere, I forget exactly where, on another continent as usual, and they want Waterman to go over there and fight for them. For IT, I mean—when did a government ever consist of human beings?

More likely the BLM or the Park Service will bypass our trail with an electrical chair lift for crippled tourists.

What little thinking I do is my own and I do it on government time.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.

In my day," I replied, "it was considered that the proper functions of government, strictly speaking, were limited to keeping the peace and defending the people against the public enemy, that is, to the military and police powers." "And, in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England, Germany, or hunger, cold, and nakedness?

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

Tyranny," said Solon, "is a fair field, but it has no outlet." A subtle, as well as a noble saying; it implies that he who has once made himself the master of the state has no option as to the means by which he must continue his power. Possessed of that fearful authority, his first object is to rule, and it becomes a secondary object to rule well.

Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who, on the one hand, do not actively assist it or, on the other, do not passively submit.

Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' someone asked the chaplain. No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.