Government Quotes
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)
No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.Benjamin Disraeli
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.Edward Abbey
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.Dame Edith Sitwell
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
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.Bertrand de Jouvenal
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.Hubert H. Humphrey
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.Benjamin Franklin
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Government expands to absorb revenue - And then some.Tom Wicke
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.George Bernard Shaw
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
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.Herbert Clark Hoove
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
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
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.Harry S Truman
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.Alexander Tyle
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.Ambrose Bierce
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.Gerald R. Ford, on becoming President, Aug. 9, 1974
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their. s.Elbert Hubbard
Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is... Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.Jeff Melvoin
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.Henry David Thoreau
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
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.Voltaire
The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.John S. Coleman
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.Thomas Jefferson
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.John Updike
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.George Bernard Shaw
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
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
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.H. L. Mencken
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
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
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
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 is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first - Class management.Senator Soape
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.Edward Abbey
