Government Quotes
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.J. Michael Straczynski
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.James Madison
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.Prince Otto
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.Eduard Sagalaev
Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.Clarence Thomas
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.John Quincy Adams
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.Lenny Bruce
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
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their. s.Elbert Hubbard
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.James Madison
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.Harry S Truman
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Thomas Jefferson
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.Thomas Jefferson
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this.Albert Einstein
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.Daniel Patrick Moynihan
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.Albert Camus
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.Plato, The Republic
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
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.H. L. Mencken
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.George Washington
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.Aristotle
That government is best which governs least. - From Civil Disobedience.Henry David Thoreau
All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.Ellen Goodman
The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you? re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.John Alejandro King, a. k. a. The Covert Comic, www. covertcomic. com
I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. On appointing 10 women to top government positions.Lyndon B. Johnson
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.Bertrand Russell
Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.Henry Ward Beeche
All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.Frank Herbert, Dune
