Government Quotes

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of go...

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic ...

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the...

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that ...

He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us...

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is t...

When Buzz gets in, he won't be having any parade of wounded soldiers. That'll be bad Fascist psychol...

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned even the meanest yet every one thinks himself suffici...

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgmen...

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow t...

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the un...

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to...

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you...

In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don't life or approve of.

As an Auyana man living in New Guinea under the Pax Australiana put it, “Life was better since the g...

States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in the...

The government should help and guide the weak and small racial groups within its national boundaries...

We know a way now to make use of democracy, and we know how to change the attitude of people towards...

It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they a...

It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves.Another tool to cause misery in o...

Everything not forbidden is compulsory

Republics never survive, for their people do not like freedom but prefer to be led and guided and fl...

Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it suc...

The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Suprem...

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corrupt...

I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were repo...

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it was not simple if yo...

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.

Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming mega...

Is that all, sir? Only we've got stuff to finish before our knocking-off time, you see, and if we st...

Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia...

Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of ‘democracy’ with Carrot, and had been rather intereste...

I believe the term is ‘eminent domain.’Ah, yes. That means ‘theft by the government,

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not ...

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they thi...

In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.

Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gent...

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; ...

We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedent...

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle...

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of goo...

That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies,...

Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of ...

If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council o...

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trus...

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the ...

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free ...

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa...

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that th...

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the lab...

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gate...

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors...

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be tru...

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at...

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors ...

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political b...

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and...

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if w...

The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only ...

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political wo...

I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare alread...

I hope we shall ... crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare alread...

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of a...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by th...

Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the...

Is not that government both unjust and ungrateful, that is so prodigal of it's favors to those calle...

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither abilit...

It is even so in a commonwealth and in the councils of princes; if ill opinions cannot be quite root...

Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take ...

We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of indust...

That government is best which governs least.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evi...

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disap...

Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins ...

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society promotes our happiness p...

There is an unnatural unfitness in an aristocracy to be legislators for a nation. Their ideas of dis...

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of n...

I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions an...

One glance at any government budget anywhere in the world tells the story—the money is always in pla...

Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the le...

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on th...

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication s...

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly an...

It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who...