780 quotes found
“Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. ”
“Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.”
“It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I recognized it in "Revolution," the essay of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, who describes the ...”
“They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.”
“What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintena...”
“A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence -- often the sole evidence offered -- of "inadequate" nongovernment institutions, whose "inability" to cope with problems "obviously" required ...”
“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.”
“The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.”
“Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No onegets left behind. An instrument of good.”
“If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.”
“That's the problem with this whole country. Fucking vast prosperity. No one has any real problems anymore. Ninety percent of the damn politicians in this town either think there's no war on terror,...”
“The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!”
“The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.”
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
“Now, paper and pencils," said Miss Marcy, clapping her hands.Writing paper is scarce in this house, and I had no intention of tearing sheets out of this exercise book, which is a superb sixpenny on...”
“Let us leave political questions to be decided by the powers concerned," Sir Ralph would say, "as we have adopted a form of government which forbids us to discuss our interests ourselves. If a nati...”
“Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.”
“If you start to smell some of the shit, you start smelling all of the shit”
“The government cannot give to anybody anything that thegovernment does not first take from somebody else.”
“To me, patriotism means dedication to the principles on which the country was founded and a willingness to stand firm and fight for these principles regardless of what the government says or does”
