Government Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Governments too steady and uniform, as they are seldom free, so are they, in the judgment of some attended with another sensible inconvenience: they…

— David Hume

In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing…

— Ronald Reagan

“What is needed is a growth in consciousness, not a growth of government.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

“I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same…

— Edmund Burke

“Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness...”

— Albert Camus

“The problem of the Government is a ‘consideration of convenience’ as Burke called it. It is the problem of finding how we can best…

— G.M. Mes

“If there is a life force operating in Nature, still there is nothing so analogous in a bureaucracy. Nothing so mystical. It all comes…

— Thomas Pynchon

“The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also,Government is for the living, and not for the dead;…

— Thomas Paine

“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to…

— Plato

“This [...] government [...] has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man cam bend it to his will.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“To understand the nature and quantity of government proper for man, it is necessary to attend to his character. As Nature created him for…

— Thomas Paine