Government Quotes

Aleksandr isayevich solzhenitsyn - a great writer is, so to speak, a second...
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson
Nikita khrushchev - asking to meet with italian businessmen instead...
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
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
William H. Borah
Edward abbey - a patriot must always be ready to defend his...
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
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
John Updike
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
Gerald R. Ford, on becoming President, Aug. 9, 1974
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
In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.
Benjamin Franklin
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
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - The principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
William Orville Douglas
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
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Ronald Reagan
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
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, Hansard, November 12, 1936
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
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
The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service.
Richard Milhous Nixon
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.
Henry Commage
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
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel Adams
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
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Milton Friedman
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
George Washington
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva
No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792
An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications.
John Herro
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
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
George Farquha
Why has government been instituted at all Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton