Quotes about Government
The same year Qutb was hanged, Zawahiri helped to form an underground militant cell dedicated to replacing the secular Egyptian government with an Islamic one. He was fifteen years old.
— Lawrence Wright
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.
— Thomas Jefferson
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.
— John Adams
The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.
— John Adams
the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
— Thomas Jefferson
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.
— CS Lewis
The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .
— George Washington
It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population.
— Thomas Jefferson
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
— Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.
— Albert Einstein