Government Quotes
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. (Quote by - Sydney J. Harris)
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 government. (Quote by - Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. (Quote by - H L Mencken)
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. (Quote by - H.L. Mencken)
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. (Quote by - Fred Woodworth)
Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. (Quote by - Sir Richard Francis Burton)
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European) they are good or bad. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. (Quote by - George Burns)
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras.... As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty. (Quote by - William A. Niskanen)
I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. (Quote by - Richard Rumbold)
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life. (Quote by - Elmer Davis)
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government. (Quote by - Socrates)
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. (Quote by - Noam Chomsky)
A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. (Quote by - James Madison)
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Good government is no substitute for self-government. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient. (Quote by - Louis Brandeis)
That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
A goverment that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. (Quote by - Barry Goldwater)
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. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force. (Quote by - George Washington)
It's every American's duty to support his government, but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed. (Quote by - Quoted by Thomas Clifford)
The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult. (Quote by - John Quincy Adams)
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)
Though the people support the government the government should not support the people. (Quote by - Grover Cleveland)
Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. (Quote by - Werner Finck)
You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so. (Quote by - Edmund Muske)
Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right. (Quote by - William Allen White)
The true art of government consists in not governing too much. (Quote by - Jonathan Shipley)
People come to Washington believing it's the center of power. I know I did. It was only much later that I learned that Washington is a steering wheel that's not connected to the engine. (Quote by - Richard Goodwin)
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. (Quote by - Richard Lamm)
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect. (Quote by - Sam Ewing)
So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst. (Quote by - Jane Auer)
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right. (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic - they are pus. (Quote by - Martin H. Fischer)
People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing. (Quote by - Walter H. Judd)
Nothing's more dull and negligent Than an old, lazy government, That knows no interest of state, But such as serves a present strait. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers. (Quote by - Jay Leno)
We will create a civilisation of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. (Quote by - John Barlow)
States are great engines moving slowly. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States. (Quote by - John Quincy Adams)
Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. (Quote by - Louis D. Brandeis)
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts. (Quote by - Harold McMillan)
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? (Quote by - Will Rogers)
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. (Quote by - Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter. (Quote by - George Greenville)
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. (Quote by - George Washington)
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward. (Quote by - Otto von Bismarck)
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
The safety of the State is the highest law. (Quote by - Justinian)
A camel is a horse designed by committee. (Quote by - Sir Alec Issigonis)
My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
The plague of government is senile delinquency. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. (Quote by - James Reston)
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. (Quote by - Bible)
Whatever is, is not, is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like. (Quote by - Richard Bentley)
Fear is the foundation of most governments. (Quote by - John Adams)
Government is a kind of legalized pillage. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech This is universal thing, taught by all religions. (Quote by - Thich Nhat Hanh)
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
The most important political office is that of the private citizen. (Quote by - Louis Brandeis)
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. (Quote by - P.J. O'Rourke)
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. (Quote by - Tom Stoppard)
I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. (Quote by - James Madison)
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people. (Quote by - John Bright)
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. (Quote by - Wilhelm Reich)
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. (Quote by - Michael Novak)
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? (Quote by - St. Augustine)
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone. (Quote by - Robert L. Heilbroner)
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. (Quote by - Joseph Heller)
Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees. (Quote by - Boris Marshalov)
Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea. spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer. (Quote by - Justice Robert Jackson)
No nation is fit to set in judgment upon any other nation. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned -- this is the sum of good government. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. (Quote by - Lord Acton)
If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also. (Quote by - Fred Woodworth)
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. (Quote by - Aristotle)
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. (Quote by - Alexander Woollcott)
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. (Quote by - William Ewart Gladstone)
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. (Quote by - Robert M. Hutchins)
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
All of us rightly regard ourselves as loyal to the Labour Party and yourself over many years. We believe however that you have not ended the uncertainty over when you intend to leave office, which is damaging the government and the party. (Quote by - Wayne Davis)
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. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Cavalry, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin. (Quote by - Abbott E Kittredge)
Let's tell young people the best books are yet to written) the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them [a nice and positive quote!] (Quote by - John Erskine)
Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier When will we have the courage of Lincoln. (Quote by - Robert Coles)
Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it. (Quote by - Benjamin Lichtenberg)
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. (Quote by - John Perry Barlow)
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant. (Quote by - John Adams)
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
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 others that have been tried from time to time. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)
It seems to me that government is like a pump, and what it pumps up is just what we are, a fair sample of the intellect, the ethics and the morals of the people, no better, no worse. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down. (Quote by - Robert Orben)
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)
All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is founded on compromise and barter. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government. (Quote by - Robert Jackson)
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. (Quote by - Edward R Murrow)
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion. (Quote by - Stewart Dalzell)
Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. (Quote by - Proverb)
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The happiness of society is the end of government. (Quote by - John Adams)
The most terrifying words in the English langauge are) I'm from the government and I'm here to help. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. (Quote by - Henry Clay)
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
Protecting national security is the Government's top priority. (Quote by - Tony McNulty)
Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence? (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops. (Quote by - Kelvin Throop)
Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens. (Quote by - Edgar A. Suter)
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. (Quote by - John F Kennedy)
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann )
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. (Quote by - John Gardner)
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause. (Quote by - George Matthew Adams)
If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century -- and the economy -- around. (Quote by - Bella Abzug)
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. (Quote by - George Jean Nathan)
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. (Quote by - Lewis Mumford, in Anne Chisholm)
Morphine and state relief are the same. You go dopey, feel better and are worse off. (Quote by - Martin H. Fischer)
Information is the currency of democracy. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy. (Quote by - Benjamin Disrae)
The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men. (Quote by - James Bryce)
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. (Quote by - Alan Coren)
You can't run a government solely on a business basis Government should be human. It should have a heart. (Quote by - Herbert Henry Lehman)
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. (Quote by - Eugene McCarthy)
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. (Quote by - William Penn)
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Every country has the government it deserves. (Quote by - Joseph De Maistre)
The chancellor's failure to give Britain's taxpayers value for money will be the terrible legacy of this government. (Quote by - Oliver Letwin)
A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away. (Quote by - Boris Yeltsin)
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it. (Quote by - George S. Patton)
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. (Quote by - James A. Garfield)
Every single member of this Labour government, if you go back 20 years, has made the most extraordinary 180 degree turn. (Quote by - Brian Feeney)
England is the mother of parliaments. (Quote by - John Bright)
Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. (Quote by - Hubert H Humphrey)
You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them. (Quote by - Russell Chatham)
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. (Quote by - Barry Goldwater)
Democracy is direct self-government, over all the people, for all the people, by all the people. (Quote by - Theodore Parker)
Treaties are like roses and young girls - they last while they last. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. (Quote by - Edward R Murrow)
A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master. (Quote by - George Washington)
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. (Quote by - George Pataki)
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The government is us; we are the government, you and I. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover, attributed)
Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality. (Quote by - David E Lilienthal)
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. (Quote by - William Howard Taft)
The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. (Quote by - Gerald R. Ford)
Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe. (Quote by - Mrs. Aphra Johnson Behn)
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. (Quote by - Arthur Goldberg)
For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford. (Quote by - Paul Martin)
The first duty of a government is to give education to the people. (Quote by - Simon Bolivar)
The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. (Quote by - George Washington)
The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men. (Quote by - Plato)
Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go. (Quote by - Gerald R. Ford)
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. (Quote by - Larry Flynt)
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words. (Quote by - National Review)
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. (Quote by - Jorge Luis Borges)
It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter. (Quote by - Harold McMillan)
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. (Quote by - Pierre De Beaumarchais)
The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away. (Quote by - John Caldwell)
The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility. (Quote by - H.A. Overstreet)
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. (Quote by - Cullen Hightower)
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich that they in turn may care for the laboring poor. (Quote by - Grover Cleveland)
By definition, a government has no conscience Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. (Quote by - Albert Camus )
The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them hones No one else can. (Quote by - John Gardner)
Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet. (Quote by - Russell B. Long)
I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party. (Quote by - John Bright)
Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed. (Quote by - Bernhard Berenson)
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese? (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government. (Quote by - Alexander Chase)
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. (Quote by - Polish Proverb)
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. (Quote by - Louis D. Brandeis)
To rule is easy, to govern difficult. (Quote by - Johann W. von Goethe)
The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights) it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National. (Quote by - George F. Will)
A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions. (Quote by - Benjamin L. Hooks)
More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries. (Quote by - Gro H Brundtland )
Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves. (Quote by - Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman)
Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more. (Quote by - William Henry Harrison)
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed. (Quote by - William Pen)
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. (Quote by - P J O'Rourke)
In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side. (Quote by - Theodore Forstmann)
To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization. (Quote by - Paul Ricoeur)
Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else. (Quote by - Nicolas Walter)
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
During this campaign the chancellor and the prime minister will stand up and say it [the government] hasn't increased taxes, and that's just not true for business. (Quote by - Digby Jones)
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment. (Quote by - Elie Wiesel)
The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau. (Quote by - James F. Byrnes)
Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave. (Quote by - Felix G. Rohatyn)
Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government. (Quote by - Marty Meehan)
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of the state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state. (Quote by - Baron de Montesquieu)
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
They want and their kids pay for it. (Quote by - Richard Lamm)
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls. (Quote by - John Quincy Adams)
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. (Quote by - Cullen Hightower)
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. (Quote by - Steve Allen)
Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my political life, which is this: a belief that that country is best governed, which is least governed (Quote by - George Hoadly)
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. (Quote by - W. E. Channing)
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Every nation has the government that it deserves. (Quote by - Joseph De Maistre)
There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just the familiar ones) honest search for understanding, education, organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators or that lays the basis for institutional change -- and the kind of commitment that will persist despite the temptations of disillusionment, despite many failures and only limited successes, inspired by the hope of a brighter future. (Quote by - Noam Chomsky)
Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfil its obligations. (Quote by - Martin Gross)
Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy. (Quote by - Charles Frankel)
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. (Quote by - James Madison)
The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)
Themistocles said, "The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you." (Quote by - Plutarch)
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. (Quote by - George Bancroft)
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Quote by - Lao-Tsze)
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Quote by - Aesop)
There's no trick to being a humourist when you have the whole government working for you. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone. (Quote by - John Bright)
