Government Quotes
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.George Washington
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.Ludwig Mises
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.Madame Chiang
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.Thomas Jefferson
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.John Updike
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.Ronald Reagan
Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.MacKenzie King
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
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.William Ellery Channing
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.Bertrand Russell
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.Dame Edith Sitwell
Governments never learn. Only people learn.Milton Friedman
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.Dwight D Eisenhowe
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.Lord William Beveridge
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
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
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
The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.Voltaire
What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.Johann von Goethe
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their. s.Elbert Hubbard
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.Chester Bowles
The real object of those who resorted to Secession, as well as those who sustained it, was not to overthrow the Government of the United States but to perpetuate the principles upon which it was founded. The object in quitting the Union was not to destroy, but to save the principles of the Constitution.Alexander Hamilton Stephens
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
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
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.Voltaire
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.Ronald Reagan
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.Thomas Jefferson
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first - Class management.Senator Soape
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.John Adams, Journal, 1772
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.Ansel Adams
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.Harry S Truman
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.George Gilde
They who seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.Thomas Jefferson
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
There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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)
