government Quotes

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.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.