Quotes About Government

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People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Moore

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Albert Einstein

After all, when one tries to change institutions without having changed the nature of men, that unchanged nature will soon resurrect those institutions.

Will Durant

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Monty Python

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

Mark Twain

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Plato

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson

We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Winston Churchill

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government

Thomas Jefferson