Government Quotes - page 4

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body. View quote
Georg Büchner
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny. View quote
Georg Büchner
The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult. View quote
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. View quote
Edmund Burke
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. View quote
John C. Calhoun
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges. (Buenaventura Durruti)
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. View quote
Woody Allen
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. View quote
Edith Sitwell
Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words abortion or tax cuts pass their lips. View quote
Ann Coulter
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have. View quote
Barry Goldwater
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. View quote
Henry Clay
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. View quote
William Beveridge
The government is us; we are the government, you and I. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. (Woodrow Wilson)
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. View quote
Warren G. Harding
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.