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1. "All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State."

Albert Camus, "The Rebel"

2. "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

3. "A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years."

Harry S. Truman

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

4. "Tyranny is always better organised than freedom."

Charles Péguy

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

5. "Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Quotations about: Education

6. "What is a rebel? A man who says no."

Albert Camus, "The Rebel"

Quotations about: Justice

7. "How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"

Charles de Gaulle

Quotations about: History and Nations

8. "So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable."

Aldous Huxley, "Ends and Means"

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

9. "Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing."

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

10. "The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins."

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

11. "It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. "

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Le Siecle de Louis XIV"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

12. "Those who cast the Votes, they decide nothing. Those who count the votes, they decide everything."

Joseph Stalin

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

13. "The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Richness and Money

14. "A king is history's slave."

Lev Tolstoy, "War and Peace"

Quotations about: History and Nations

15. "It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Questions sur l'Encyclopédie"

Quotations about: Law and Crime

16. "When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Patriotism

17. "Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

Lev Tolstoy

18. "A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy."

John Stuart Mill

19. "Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

20. "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Patriotism

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21. "A riot is the language of the unheard."

Martin Luther King

22. "A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Richness and Money

23. "In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master.""

Robert A. Heinlein

24. "Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny."

Simone Weil, "Lectures in philosophy"

25. "Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government."

Bertrand Russell

Quotations about: Law and Crime

26. "It`s not the voting that`s democracy, it`s the counting."

Tom Stoppard, "Jumpers"

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

27. "Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck."

Guy de Maupassant

Quotations about: Peace and War

28. "A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."

Alexis de Tocqueville

29. "Clever tyrants are never punished."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

30. "You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."

John Kenneth Galbraith

31. "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy."

Anon.

Quotations about: Various

32. "Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

Ronald Reagan

33. "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

Will Rogers

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

34. "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

35. "Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."

Khalil Gibran

36. "There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

Quotations about: Law and Crime

37. "An elephant. A mouse built to government specifications."

Robert A. Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

38. "In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"

St. Augustine of Hippo

Quotations about: Justice

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