government Quotes

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.