Government Quotes

The Master said, "He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." (Confucius)
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. View quote
H. L. Mencken
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. View quote
Gerald Ford
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. View quote
Harry S. Truman
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. (Thomas Jefferson)
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
A government with the policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Every nation gets the government it deserves. View quote
Joseph de Maistre
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government. View quote
William Howard Taft
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. View quote
Jonathan Swift
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you. View quote
Will Rogers
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. View quote
Winston Churchill
The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. View quote
John Adams
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations. View quote
John Tyler
This Universe never did make sense; I suspect that it was built on government contract. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. View quote
Will Rogers
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte