Government Quotes - page 2

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey
In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem government is the problem.
Ronald Reagan
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
P. J. O'Rourke
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
Anthony Kennedy
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James Madison
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
Andrew Jackson
The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe.
Andrew Jackson
Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
James K. Polk
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. (George Bernard Shaw)
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.
Stephen Harper
Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.
Jesse Ventura
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
Earl Warren
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 Stevenson II
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell
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.
Woodrow Wilson
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people. (James A. Garfield)
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Václav Havel
All government, of course, is against liberty.
H. L. Mencken
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse.
Milton Friedman