Government Quotes - page 8

I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq. (Stephen Colbert)
If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin. View quote
Samuel Adams
I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man. View quote
Samuel Adams
The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy. View quote
John Wesley
When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. View quote
George Washington
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of thecommunity are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality. View quote
George Washington
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. View quote
George Washington
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. View quote
George Washington
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. View quote
George Washington
A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic. (Gough Whitlam)
Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I got a letter from the IRS. Apparently I owe them 800. So I sent them a letter back. I said, If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip, which according to your very own latest government pentagon spending figures will more than make up for the difference. View quote
Emo Philips
Everything government touches turns to crap. View quote
Ringo Starr
Good government is the outcome of private virtue. View quote
John Jay Chapman
Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens. View quote
Jesse Ventura
I decided to run for governor because I got mad.... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people. View quote
Jesse Ventura
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens. (Theodore Roosevelt)
I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it. View quote
Woodrow Wilson