Government Quotes
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.Ralph Nade
A revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.John Adams, (Diary, 1786)
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.George Washington
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.Tom Robbins
Governments never learn. Only people learn.Milton Friedman
The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.John S. Coleman
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office.H. L. Mencken
Its embarrassing, you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on a Best Sellers List.Abbie Hoffman, In response to the success of his book; Steal this Book
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth - Rate men.Henry B. Adams
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.Thomas Jefferson
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.Elias Boudinot
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.Edward Abbey
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.Bertrand de Jouvenal
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.Bob Wells
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.H. L. Mencken
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.Thomas Jefferson
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.James Abram Garfield
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.John Updike
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
The less government we have the better.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.George Washington
All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.Frank Herbert, Dune
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.Thomas Fulle
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.Clement Atlee
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.Francis Bacon
Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.Andrew Johnson
On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.Will Rogers
No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.Benjamin Disraeli
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other.Voltaire, The Portable Voltaire
