Politics / Government Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

747 Politics / Government Quotes
“A nation's policy form an integral whole. Foreign policy and domestic policy are closely linked together; they are but one system; they condition each other.”
Ludwig von Mises Quotes
“There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.”
Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
“The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more costly it is for governments to kill them. Evidence indicates that governments respond to this economic incentive.”
Gerald W. Scully Quotes
“The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.”
Margot Asquith Quotes
“The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.”
Marquis De Custine Quotes
“Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.”
Stephen Decatur Quotes
“Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love.”
D. D. Field Quotes
“A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.”
Walter Bagehot Quotes
“God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials.”
J. K. Gressett Quotes
“The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.”
St. Augustine Quotes
“Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee.”
Ludwig von Mises Quotes
“Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class.”
Albert Jay Nock Quotes
“There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.”
Albert Jay Nock Quotes
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
John Kennedy Quotes
“The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.”
Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes
“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
Shane Leslie Quotes
“If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.”
Arnold Toynbee Quotes
“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.”
Rich Little Quotes
“Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”
James Reston Quotes
“Bad monetary and fiscal policy, often designed by the IMF, is the real cause of global problems. The only explanation for why government leaders continue to follow these policies is that by blaming markets, they avoid blaming themselves.”
Brian S. Wesbury Quotes
“To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.”
Havelock Ellis Quotes
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
Patrick Henry Quotes
“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”
Patrick Henry Quotes
“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?”
Patrick Henry Quotes
“I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...”
Richard Milhous Nixon Quotes
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