Government Quotes
Governments never learn. Only people learn.Milton Friedman
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
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.John Adams
Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.Henry David Thoreau
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.Sir Winston Churchill
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.Bob Wells
A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845
Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.Lenny Bruce
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.James Reston
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
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.Albert Camus
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.Gerald R. Ford
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
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
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
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.Clement Atlee
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.I. F. Stone
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
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.H. L. Mencken
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
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.Ronald Reagan
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
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 expands to absorb revenue - And then some.Tom Wicke
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.Prince Otto
There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.William Ellery Channing
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.Thomas Paine
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
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
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
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
The less government we have the better.Ralph Waldo Emerson
