George Bernard Shaw Government Quotes

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

- George Bernard Shaw

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

- George Bernard Shaw

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

- George Bernard Shaw

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

- George Bernard Shaw

Satisfaction is death.

- George Bernard Shaw

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

- George Bernard Shaw

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

- George Bernard Shaw

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else

- George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing, and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

- George Bernard Shaw

The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from government.

- Thomas Paine

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

- Edward Abbey

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is government of, by and for the people

- Abraham Lincoln

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

- Plato