Government Quotes

Benjamin disraeli, speech in the house of commons, mar. 3, 1845 - a conservative government is an organized...
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Gilbert keith chesterton - democracy means government by the uneducated,...
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
Gerald r. ford - a government big enough to give you everything...
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells
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
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine, in his "The Rights of Man" (1791)
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
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
Edward Abbey
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Dame Edith Sitwell
Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.
Chief Justice Earl Warren
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Hubert H. Humphrey
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.
Jim Fiebig
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
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
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
That government is best which governs least. - From Civil Disobedience.
Henry David Thoreau
Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.
Henry Ward Beeche
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Herbert Clark Hoove
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James Abram Garfield
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
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
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
Prince Otto
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)
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
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their. s.
Elbert Hubbard
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison, Speech, October 1, 1840
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
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
Bertrand de Jouvenal
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.
Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.
Lorne Bloch
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken
Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.
Unknown Russian
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
Gerald R. Ford, on becoming President, Aug. 9, 1974
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman