Politics and Government Quotes

Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country

Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I MAY do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I OUGHT to do.

Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.

Law is common force organized to prevent injustice.

It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws.

The Cabinet, in a word, is a board of control chosen by the legislature, out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation.

But a conflict of forces requires nothing so much as brave men; and of these, I believe, the larger number is with us, and with those who share our danger.

You have a thousand cavalry, and infantry as many as any one can desire, and three hundred ships.

My own belief is that our cause, the cause of justice, and its supporters, will prove stronger in every emergency than the traitor and the foreigner.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.