government Quotes

If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.