Government Quotes

H. l. mencken - every decent man is ashamed of the government he...
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
Sam ewig - the government deficit is the difference between...
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
H. l. mencken - the government consists of a gang of men exactly...
Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.
I. F. Stone 1907 - 1989
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Thomas Jefferson
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
Edward Abbey
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.
Henry Commage
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack Anderson
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
John Adams
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
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson
One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.
Dwight Eisenhowe
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Sir Winston Churchill
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
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.
Thomas Paine
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
I. F. Stone
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Milton Friedman
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
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
James Madison
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita.
Thomas Jefferson
During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.
Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005
If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government - - And a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.
Edward Abbey
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John Adams
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
William Fullbright
Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.
Lenny Bruce
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.
Jim Fiebig
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.
George Washington
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.
Lyndon B. Johnson
A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.
Unknown Russian
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Nadia Boulange
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
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.
Benjamin Franklin