Quotes About Government

his removal was universally welcomed in the navy, not least by that old salt, George V. The formation of the new government was most desirable, since 'Only by that means can we get rid of Churchill from Admiralty,' the king told the queen. 'He is the real danger' and 'has become impossible'.

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Weak men, indeed, are prejudiced towards rules and systems in life and government; and think if these are gone all is gone: but a man of a great soul and free spirit delights in the noble experiment of blowing up systems and dissolving governments, to mould them anew upon other principles and in another shape.

The wheels of government go on, though wound up by different hands.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot.

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.