5,272 Quotes About Government

It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!

This is how best to effect change. If you reiterate the same fears and the same sensible measures with proper augmentation enough times, even difficult decisions will begin to seem like the only justifiable solutions.

At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess.

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I'll feel right at home.

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people.

Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.