Government Quotes

"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive." "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." "Freedom is the very essence of our democracy" "Government is a human institution, created by human beings, mainly for the purpose of instituting and maintaining certain types of order among humans" "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer" "To me, it seems that the countries that are doing the best are those that are distancing themselves from ideology" "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." "Democracy is the road to socialism." "Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights" "The rights of the people come from God, not the government" "Socialism doesn't work because people need to be free" "Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you." "The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament" "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job" "You don't pay taxes, they take taxes" "We don’t need a weak government that lacks will, strength and determination " "Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people." "The government is us; we are the government, you and I." "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."