Quotes about government
575 quotes from 235 people
Robert Reichborn 1946Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few (2015)While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
Vladimir Lenin1870–1924The State and Revolution (1917), Ch. 5All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
Benito Mussolini1883–1945Speech to Chamber of Deputies (9 December 1928), quoted in Propaganda and Dictatorship (2007) by Marx Fritz Morstein, p. 48
Montesquieu1689–1755The Spirit of the Laws (1748), Book XXIX: Of the Manner of Composing Laws, Chapter 16: Things to be Observed in the Composing of LawsA state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 162
Robert H. Jackson1892–1954The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy: A Study in Crisis in American Power Politics (1941), P. 8
Grover Cleveland1837–1908At the celebration of the sesquicentennial of Princeton College (October 22, 1896).
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Civil Disobedience (1849)
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington (16 January 1787)
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter II- Robert H. Jackson1892–1954American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 439 (1950)
- Thomas Jefferson1743–1826to George Logan, 1816
There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
Pierre Trudeau1919–2000Remark to reporters outside the House of Commons (21 December 1967)- Edmund Burke1729–1797Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)