Government Quotes

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

As long as the government’s actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution.

Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.