Government Quotes - page 5

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. (William F. Buckley)
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. View quote
Golda Meir
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. View quote
Oliver Cromwell
Blest is that government where no art thrives. View quote
Thomas Nashe
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. View quote
Denis Diderot
There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I don't even have to exaggerate. View quote
Will Rogers
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. View quote
Lewis Mumford
That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted for a moment, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. View quote
Lysander Spooner
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. View quote
Thomas Sowell
Secrecy is an instrument of conspiracy; it ought not, therefore, to be the system of a regular government. (Jeremy Bentham)
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government. View quote
Jim Hightower
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. View quote
Mark Twain
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. View quote
Voltaire
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. View quote
Guy de Maupassant
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things. (Gerald Ford)
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The best minds in government If any were, business would hire them away. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past. View quote
Gustav Stresemann