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. View quote
Voltaire
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. View quote
Edward Abbey
In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem government is the problem. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. View quote
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. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. View quote
James Madison
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. View quote
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. View quote
Andrew Jackson
Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Václav Havel
All government, of course, is against liberty. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. View quote
Will Rogers
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse. View quote
Milton Friedman