Popular Quotes

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin

The safety of the State is the highest law.

- Justinian

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient.

- Louis Brandeis

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

- Edmund Burke

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

- Henry Clay

Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.

- Grover Cleveland

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

- Thomas Jefferson

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

- Thomas Jefferson

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)

- Lao-Tsze

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

- Abraham Lincoln

A house divided against itself cannot stand—I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.

- Abraham Lincoln

Every nation has the government that it deserves.

- Joseph De Maistre

Democracy is direct self-government, over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

- Theodore Parker

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection,—they have many friends and few enemies.

- Wendell Phillips

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades—that of government.

- Socrates

It seems to me that government is like a pump, and what it pumps up is just what we are, a fair sample of the intellect, the ethics and the morals of the people, no better, no worse.

- Adlai Stevenson

Themistocles said, "The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you."

- Plutarch

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

- George Washington