government Quotes

“Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:government democracy respect

“And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:government judgement

“For the greatest part of humanity and the longest periods of history, empire has been the typical mode of government. Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.”

― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

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“nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.”

― Richard Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think?

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“A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

topic:government democracy

“The position now taken by the Government is absolutely destructive of legitimate business, because they outline no rule of conduct for business of any magnitude.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

topic:government business

“Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forc'd by...”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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“Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:government justice

“Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

topic:government need

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