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1. "Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."

George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

2. "Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Voltaire's Notebooks"

3. "Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

Aldous Huxley, "Beyond the Mexique Bay"

Quotations about: History and Nations

4. "The happiness of society is the end of government."

John Adams, "Thoughts on Government"

Quotations about: Happiness

5. "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

John Adams, "The Works of John Adams"

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

6. "Authority forgets a dying king."

Alfred Tennyson, "Idylls of the King"

Quotations about: Life and Death

7. "In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Philosophical Dictionary"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

8. "Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum."

P.J. O`Rourke, "Parliament of Whores"

Quotations about: History and Nations

9. "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

P.J. O`Rourke, "Parliament of Whores"

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

10. "Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."

P.J. O`Rourke, "Parliament of Whores"

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

11. "Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us."

P.J. O`Rourke, "Parliament of Whores"

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

12. "Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us."

P.J. O`Rourke, "Parliament of Whores"

13. "A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."

Fidel Castro

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

14. "Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic."

Henry Brooks Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams"

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

15. "At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

16. "The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided."

Casey Stengel

17. "Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."

Laurence J. Peter

Quotations about: Various

18. "A poor man who takes a rich wife has a ruler, not a wife."

Greek proverb

Quotations about: Marriage -:- Richness and Money

19. "Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion."

Scottish proverb

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude -:- Patriotism

20. "We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."

Wendell Phillips

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21. "The government is best which makes itself unnecessary."

Wilhelm von Humboldt

22. "It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own."

Herbert Hoover

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

23. "A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."

James Callaghan

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Success and Fame

24. "The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."

Erich Fromm

Quotations about: Law and Crime

25. "It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power."

Kim Stanley Robinson, "Green Mars"

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

26. "Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."

Theodore Roosevelt

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

27. "The distinction between a manager and a leader is as broad as the distance between control and inspiration."

Anon.

Quotations about: Success and Fame

28. "Fish begins to stink at the head."

Anon.

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

29. "In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing."

Anatol France

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Richness and Money

30. "Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior."

Socrates

Quotations about: Woman and Man

31. "The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."

James A. Garfield

Quotations about: Peace and War -:- Politics and Diplomacy

32. "A statesman shears the sheep. A politician skins them."

Austin O`Malley

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

33. "I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it."

Tommy Lasorda

Quotations about: Various

34. "In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One."

Yakov Smirnoff

Quotations about: History and Nations

35. "The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."

P.J. O`Rourke

36. "Votes should be weighed not counted."

Friedrich von Schiller

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

37. "Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."

Aristotle

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

38. "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way."

John C. Maxwell

39. "An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead."

Nancy Mitford

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

40. "A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service."

Georges Pompidou

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

41. "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."

Walter Lippmann

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

42. "Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves."

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

43. "If the Government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have."

Gerald Ford

44. "Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."

Clement Attlee

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

45. "After the government takes enough to balance the budget, the taxpayer has the job of budgeting the balance."

Anon.

Quotations about: Richness and Money -:- Various

46. "Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."

T.S. Eliot

Quotations about: Various

47. "Nature's laws are the invisible government of the earth."

Alfred Armand Montapert

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

48. "A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner, or writing an essay, or painting a picture. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."

Mao Zedong

Quotations about: Various

49. "Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god."

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

Quotations about: Law and Crime

50. "Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic."

Albert Camus, "The Rebel"

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