Government Quotes

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the lightest.

The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.

A nation that does not believe in its own strength as a nation cannot stand as an independent nation.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

I want our nation to be the most beautiful in the world — not the most powerful, but the most beautiful.

I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by Americans.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.