"Fear is the foundation of most government."

Adams, John on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy."

Amsterdam, Maury on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations."

Bagehot, Walter on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

This quote can be viewed in the context of a book

"Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards."

Baluch, Joy on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."

Balzac, Honore De on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."

Bastiat, Frederic on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario."

Baudrillard, Jean on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor."

Baxter, Beverley on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man."

Beveridge, Baron William Henry on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward."

Bismarck, Otto Von on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"The art of government is not to let me grow stale."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"Public instruction should be the first object of government."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement."

Boytzwnburg, Count on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots."

Bunting, Basil on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."

Burke, Edmund on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

This quote can be viewed in the context of a book

"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."

Burns, George on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away"

Caldwell, John S. on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."

Camus, Albert on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable."

Carlyle, Thomas on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government."

Carlyle, Thomas on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

This quote can be viewed in the context of a book

"Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?"

Cervantes, Miguel De on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"Good government is the outcome of private virtue."

Chapman, John Jay on Government
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>