Government Quotes - page 3

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. (Milton Friedman)
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. View quote
Winston Churchill
The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. View quote
Andrew Johnson
Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians. View quote
Chester Bowles
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. View quote
Richard Perle
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. View quote
Aristotle
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The Democrats are the party of government activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then get elected and prove it. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. View quote
John Updike
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. (Daniel Webster)
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. View quote
James Madison
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. View quote
James Madison
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. View quote
Andrew Jackson
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. (Andrew Jackson)
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government. View quote
James K. Polk
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. View quote
William O. Douglas
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government. View quote
William O. Douglas