95 Most Beautiful Government Quotes And Sayings

Loyalty to country always Loyalty to government, when it deserves it – Mark Twain We have the best government that money can buy – Mark Twain Sure there are dishonest men in local government but there are dishonest men in national government too – Richard M. Nixon So, if we lie to the government, it’s Read More…

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

It’s dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Source: Voltaire, Le Siècle de Louis XIV (1752). Original Quote in French: Il est dangereux d’avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes accrédités ont tort. Original Quote in English: It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way.

Complete Quote: There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Source: Thich Nhat Hanh, Quoted in Engaged Buddhist Reader: Ten Years of Engaged Buddhist Publishing (1996) by Arnold Kotler, Page 106.