Plato Government Quotes

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

- Plato

Courage is a kind of salvation.

- Plato

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

- Plato

Courage is knowing what not to fear

- Plato

Your silence gives consent.

- Plato

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

- Plato

Love is a serious mental disease.

- Plato

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

- Plato

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

- Plato

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

- Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

- Plato

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

- 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