Government Quotes
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.H. L. Mencken
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.Bertrand Russell
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.Bob Wells
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.Bertrand Russell
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.Thomas Paine
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.Tom Robbins
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.Voltaire
Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.Henry David Thoreau
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
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.John Adams
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)
All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.Frank Herbert, Dune
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.Thomas Jefferson
Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.Lenny Bruce
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. Stevenson Jr.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.Plato, The Republic
The real object of those who resorted to Secession, as well as those who sustained it, was not to overthrow the Government of the United States but to perpetuate the principles upon which it was founded. The object in quitting the Union was not to destroy, but to save the principles of the Constitution.Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.Thomas Jefferson
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.John Quincy Adams
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.Edward Abbey
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.Eduard Sagalaev
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.Benjamin Disraeli
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.Dame Edith Sitwell
And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.Aristotle
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.H. L. Mencken
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.George Washington
The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.John S. Coleman
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
There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.Joseph Bonaparte
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
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
