Government Quotes
What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.Johann von Goethe
Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.Henry Ward Beeche
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
In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.Benjamin Franklin
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
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.Ronald Reagan
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.Benjamin Franklin
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
The government is us we are the government, you and I.Theodore Roosevelt
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
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.Thomas Paine
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.J. Michael Straczynski
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
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.Chester Bowles
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.Barry Goldwate
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all - wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947
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
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.Bob Wells
Government expands to absorb revenue - And then some.Tom Wicke
Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - And their kids pay for it.Richard Lamm
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do and find the cure all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.Richard Feynman
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.Thomas Jefferson
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.Bertrand Russell
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.James Abram Garfield
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.Edward Abbey
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth - Rate men.Henry B. Adams
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.Henry Commage
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
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
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
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
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.Sir Winston Churchill
On account of 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
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.John Updike
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.Louis D. Brandeis
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
