Quotes about government
575 quotes from 235 people
Horace Walpole1717–1797Letter to Sir Horace Mann (7 September 1743)
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Speech in New York City (28 August 1952)
Edmund Burke1729–1797From the Tracts Relative to the Laws Against Popery in Ireland (c. 1766), not published during Burke’s lifetime.
Albert Einstein1879–1955The World As I See It (1949)
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 2
Barack Obamaborn 1961Remarks at a Qualtrics conference, Salt Lake City (6 March 2019)
Earl Warren1891–1974Speech at the Louis Marshall Award Dinner of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Americana Hotel, New York City (11 November 1962)- Edmund Burke1729–1797Letter to Thomas Mercer
John Stuart Mill1806–1873On Representative Government (1861), Ch. VI: Of the Infirmities and Dangers to Which Representative Government Is Liable (p. 234)
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Speech at Asheville, North Carolina (9 September 1902)If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Presidential Statement on the Observation of Law Day (30 April 1958)The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Panhandle Oil Co. v. Mississippi ex rel. Knox, 277 U.S. 233 (1928).What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.
Tacitus55–120Annals (117), Book XI, 24
