Government Quotes

"The good of the people is the chief law" "The well-being of the people is the highest law" "Our democracy is worth fighting for, worth dying for because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man." "The safety of the people shall be the highest law." "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." "History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient." "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. " "Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy" "The constitution is the guide which I never will abandon" "Governance is about fulfilling the people's needs" "The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government." "History will judge societies and governments and their institutions not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and powerful but how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless" "I wish that people come to the realization that politicians are only as good as the nature of their public." "The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness." "Now they call it a coup de market" "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." "The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax" "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" "A democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few"