Government Quotes

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you you hit back, do you not? Why then should not the Stat...

The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we ...

But when the social entity grows large, becomes a megalopolis, a state, a federation, then the gover...

We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases. ... Being in...

The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the indep...

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrai...

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the ...

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themsel...

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be b...

We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals...

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their governm...

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The...

What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there i...

At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to t...

In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy...

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a gove...

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a paymen...

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men f...

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state do...

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know y...

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free ...

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't e...

Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as ...

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limi...

When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such d...

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physica...

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from...

There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those...

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting b...

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on...

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'...

Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way-- to show that people w...

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather th...

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and ...

And that brings me to one last point. I've got a simple message for all the dedicated and patriotic ...

But that’s part of what makes America wonderful, is we always had this nagging dissatisfaction that ...

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact t...

That is the one thing that makes me a Democrat, I suppose - this idea that our communal values, our ...

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and dri...

the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to f...

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they...

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than i...

If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, ...

The actions of government, we are told, bear down only on imprudent souls who provoke them. The man ...

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making...

Our mission is not to impose our peculiar institutions upon other nations by physical force or diplo...

For "as great a blessing as government is," the Rev. Peter Whitney explained, "like other blessings,...

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.

There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually e...

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any rol...

Some party hack decreed that the peoplehad lost the government's confidenceand could only regain it ...

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of ...

Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted ...

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government wor...

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having t...

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

[F]reedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't get involved in politics," ...

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsi...

Jesus of Nazareth was the most famous human being who ever lived on this planet, and he had no infra...

The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it ...

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of gover...

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division.

As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state a...

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a governmen...

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny the...

Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the a...

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international prio...

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all ...

One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard ...

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed...

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the ...

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few...

I believe in political equality. But there are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may th...

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the peop...

The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt cont...

Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth an...

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were sh...

Under the attempt to perform the impossible there sets in a general disintegration. When legislation...

Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is ...

But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - ar...

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reje...

Simon was still trying to work out how Shadowhunter government and also Shadowhunter family trees wo...

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or h...

American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in th...

Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governm...

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serv...

We believe that government in Britain is there to protect people from terrorism and from the worst c...