Quotes About Government

Politics is the participation of the citizen in his government. The kind of government he has depends entirely on the quality of that participation. Therefore, every single one of us must learn, as early as possible, to understand and accept our duties as a citizen.

Each of us, ultimately, is responsible in large part for the welfare of his community, for the kind of government he has, for the world he lives in.

Uno empieza a saber lo que es un gobierno, se da cuenta de lo que es, cuando este gobierno lanza los tanques a la calle. •Alfonso Salinas Moya, de la Escuela de Odontología de la UNAM

Qué poca cosa, qué inferior se habrá sentido el presidente de México ante la voz de los estudiantes, para acallarla con armas! Los jóvenes no tenían más armas que su juventud. Sólo a balazos aniquiló Días Ordaz las peticiones que no podía atender. ¡Cómo habrán herido las consignas del CNH al gobierno, que les respondió con ráfagas de plomo!

Gilberto lo dijo en el Campo: Nosotros siempre estamos armados con nuestros ideales. El 2 de octubre no teníamos otras armas. Solo anhelos e ideas que, para el gobierno, son más peligrosas que las balas. Una bala mata a un hombre. Una idea revolucionaria despierta a cientos o a miles de personas. • Raúl Álvarez Garín, del CNH

Criticar al César no es criticar a Roma. Criticar a un gobierno no es criticar al país. •Carlos Fuentes, al reportero Guillermo Ochoa, Excélsior, 4 de marzo de 1969

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment

One morning, on my way to a lecture on Balzac, it came to me with great clarity that there was no way that that guy, the professor, was going to tell me anything useful. No doubt he knew many useful things, but he wasn't going to say them; rather, he was going to tell us again that Balzac's Paris was extremely comprehensive. I went instead to the undergraduate library, to the basement where government documents were stored.

Most government majors belonged to a social type known as "gov jocks.

Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation and the end of our democratically elected Parliament as the supreme law making body in the United Kingdom.

We have been in recess since July, and during that time there have been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the Euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.

Chinese migrants had learned from long experience to expect little of governments, and to rely much on the networks of kinship, culture, and trust.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

They think the government shows people everything —how to work, study, eat, sleep and that's it. They are afraid of change. They do not understand that if you want to do something, you should do it. You are free, people, free!

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it cant return even if it wants to.

Robert Peel, whose conversion had sparked off the last stage of the struggle, would be able to address the House of Commons once more as its Leader. The wearer of the crown had not in the end gone against the will of his government: Emancipation was proposed in the King's speech.

You should be in no doubt that, patriotic conservative that I am, I detest the burning of the nation's flag—and if I were king I would make it a crime. But as I understand the First Amendment, it guarantees the right to express contempt for the government, the Congress, the Supreme Court, even the nation and the nation's flag.

It was with characteristic foresight that George Washington declared: "I have always been persuaded, that the stability and success of the National Government and consequently the happiness of the people of the United States, would depend, in a considerable degree, on the interpretation and execution of its laws.

We hear our legislators proclaim unceasingly their respect for the individual conscience, though it be a religious conscience, and themselves anticlericals. All the same, all their efforts tend to, dissociate us, and to reduce us to the state of amorphous dust. They can bear no organised society other than what they call a lay society no government other than their government and no social finality other than their temporal aspirations.

State = political society + civil society, in other words hegemony protected by the armor of coercion.

A corrupt/cheater does not become a quitter of his position in any nation just by trending his name on twitter to go back rather we act like his mission promoter especially when he has been invited by govt oppressor