Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
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Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.
Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury monarchies by poverty.
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
To make certain that crime does not pay the government should take it over and try to run it.
The supply of government exceeds the demand.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
The government is becoming the family of last resort.
To govern is to choose.
The weak have one weapon - the errors of those who think they are strong.
As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days nor in the life of this administration nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.
While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
Government in the last analysis is organised opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion there is likely to be bad government which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
We have a tried and tested system of government that in being so flexible exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh.