“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
PeacePriorities
Government Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · GOVERNMENT
Government Quotes
Read the best government quotes on democracy, law, leadership and liberty from Madison, Jefferson, Mencius, Kautilya, Gandhi, Ambedkar, Plato and more.
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”
John F. Kennedy
DiplomacyCourage
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
John F. Kennedy
Social WelfareSociety
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.”
Ronald Reagan
Limited GovernmentFunny
“Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”
Ronald Reagan
Limited GovernmentProtection
“The era of big government is over.”
Bill Clinton
Government SizePolitics
“The great privilege of the Americans does not consist in being more enlightened than other nations, but in being able to repair the faults they may commit.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
DemocracyReform
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
Frederic Bastiat
Natural RightsLaw
“Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.”
Montesquieu
LawShort Quotes
“Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.”
John Locke
Rule Of LawTyranny
“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
Edmund Burke
PowerAbuse Of Power
“Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.”
Thomas Hobbes
LawEnforcement
“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
AdvisersLeadership
“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
PowerLegitimacy
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
Thomas Paine
HabitReform
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
Aristotle
PovertySociety
“The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth.”
Aristotle
DemocracyWealth
“In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”
The Bible (Judges 21:25)
OrderLeadership
“He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.”
The Bible (2 Samuel 23:3)
JusticeLeadership
“He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.”
The Bible (Psalm 72:4)
JusticeProtecting The Poor
“It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.”
The Bible (Proverbs 16:12)
RighteousnessLeadership
“The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.”
The Bible (Proverbs 28:16)
WisdomGreed
“Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed.”
The Bible (Isaiah 10:1)
Unjust LawsWarning
“Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”
The Bible (1 Peter 2:17)
RespectAuthority
“We ought to obey God rather than men.”
The Bible (Acts 5:29)
ConscienceFaith