The ultimate cost of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.Plato
The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.Jay Leno
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.Plato
We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.Davy Crockett
Jesus taught that we should give to the poor and support widows, but he never said that we should elect a government that would take money from our neighbor's hand and give it to the poor.Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.Thomas Jefferson
Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.Narendra Modi
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.Confucius
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.Plato
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.Plato
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.James Madison
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.Benjamin Disraeli
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.Abraham Lincoln
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.George Gurdjieff
Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.Allen West
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried.Winston Churchill