Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Governance Quotes
GovernanceLeadershipPoliticsPublic ServiceSeriousness Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
FreedomGovernanceLibertyPowerResistance Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
GovernanceJusticePovertyWealth In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
AuthorityGovernanceLeadershipPoliticsUnity The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
CynicismGovernancePoliticsSocietyTheory and Practice Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
ConsensusDecision MakingDemocracyEfficiencyGovernance When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.
GovernanceInterdependenceSocial JusticeStability The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
GovernanceLegislaturePublic WillResponsiveness In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
ConflictGovernanceHealingReconciliation All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
CampaignsGovernanceLeadershipPolitics Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.
CollaborationGovernanceHappinessHuman RightsKnowledge The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the Treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labours of Philosophers, Sages and Legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the Establishment of our forms of Government.
EquityGovernanceIntegrityJusticePower Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
CitizenshipGovernanceHistoryLawUnity We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'
FutureGovernanceProgress We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.
GovernanceLeadershipPeaceWisdom 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.
FreedomGovernanceLibertyPatriotismRights To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
GovernanceIdeologyLeadershipParty PoliticsUnity We should steadily intensify the work of establishing the Party's monolithic leadership system to make the whole Party share ideology with the Party Central Committee, breathe the same breath as it, and keep pace with it.
Community DevelopmentGovernancePersonal StrengthResilienceSelf Reliance We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.
EducationGovernanceInstabilityPower DynamicsSocial Change It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
GovernanceJusticeLiberalityLibertyVirtue As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
CitizenshipGovernanceLaw and JusticeLegal EffectivenessPolitical Accountability I think we live in a country that sometimes forgets how effective the rule of law is, perhaps because our governments have often found it inconvenient.
ApprovalGovernanceIdealsIdentityLanguage It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
Civic DutyElectionGovernanceLeadershipResponsibility The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
Gender RolesGovernanceLeadershipSocietyUnderstanding Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
