Citizens Quote by Mo Ibrahim

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

— Rene Descartes

The case for government by elites is irrefutable.

— J. William Fulbright

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

— Oliver Goldsmith

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey…

— Vladimir Putin

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Laws are no stronger than the devotion to them by the people who live under them

— Fred Rodell

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.

— Josephine Herbst

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

— Voltaire

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the…

— Georg Buchner

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

— Jesse Jackson

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

— Rick Perry