Government Quotes - page 6

If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that. (James Woolsey)
Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection. View quote
Don Tapscott
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. View quote
Elihu Root
We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time. View quote
David Dinkins
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else. View quote
Tom Clancy
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. View quote
John Updike
I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. View quote
Harry S. Truman
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. View quote
John Adams
A government of laws, and not of men. View quote
John Adams
While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. (John Adams)
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes Letter to von Humboldt, 1813. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. View quote
John Quincy Adams
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. View quote
Martin Van Buren
...all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. View quote
William Henry Harrison
The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves. (James K. Polk)
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back... View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness. View quote
Thomas Paine
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord, and cultivate prejudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable. View quote
Thomas Paine
A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. View quote
Henry David Thoreau