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Government Quotes by Mark Twain
- Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism,…
- History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head…
- The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse…
- [N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law…
- Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government…
- Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought…
- Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.
- Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
- Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
- We have the best government that money can buy.
- The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide…
- That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.
- If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.
- When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept…
- To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public…
- Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly…
- We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way…
- Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from…
More Government Quotes
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida