Government Quotes

"You don't pay taxes, they take taxes" "We don’t need a weak government that lacks will, strength and determination " "Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people." "The government is us; we are the government, you and I." "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." "The good of the people is the chief law" "The well-being of the people is the highest law" "Our democracy is worth fighting for, worth dying for because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man." "The safety of the people shall be the highest law." "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." "History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient." "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. " "Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy" "The constitution is the guide which I never will abandon" "Governance is about fulfilling the people's needs"