government Quotes

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.