Government Quotes

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let’s not have any native militia or police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order.

Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

Oh, honest Americans, as Christians hear me for my downtrodden people! Their form of government is as dear to them as yours is precious to you. Quite as warmly as you love your country, they love theirs. Do not covet the little vineyards of Naboth’s so far from your shores, lest the punishment of Ahab […]

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.