Government Quotes

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860
Frank zappa, interview with this submitter, new york city, 5/08/1980 - the function of government ought to be: make sure...
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
Sir winston churchill - so they the government go on in strange paradox,...
A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.
George Gilde
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.
Ellen Goodman
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
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
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.
James Madison
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
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
Ralph Nade
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
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston
H. l. mencken - the government consists of a gang of men exactly...
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.
Thomas Paine
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
Henry David Thoreau
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.
Louis D. Brandeis
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
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Dame Edith Sitwell
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
Sam Ewig
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
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus
Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
MacKenzie King
Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.
Unknown Russian
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.
Alexander Hamilton
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Ronald Reagan
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw
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
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel Adams
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington
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.
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
Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
Clarence Thomas
They who seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - No ideals.
Golda Mei