Government Quotes

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basi...

‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against t...

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it...

That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you ...

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, histo...

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast but never sinks.

The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has...

We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bi...

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bot...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those peo...

Safaris through ancestral memories teach me many things. The patterns, ahhh, the patterns. Liberal b...

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not tha...

Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The ma...

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in hi...

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have becom...

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Ju...

Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spo...

Once . . . long ago, he’d thought of himself as an inventor of government. But the invention had fal...

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their pass...

In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew c...

Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its...

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of ...

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I...

All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the car...

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The re...

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent o...

From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a p...

A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfe...

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but a...

Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that han...

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers...

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowl...

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled...

In the colonial countries, on the contrary, the policeman and the soldier, by their immediate presen...

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and ...

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its m...

That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drive...

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they cre...

Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are...

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does i...

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an acti...

The social organs are constituted so as to enable them to develop harmoniously in the grand air of l...

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, ...

In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law...

There is in all of us a strong disposition to regard what is lawful as legitimate, so much so that m...

In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were...

The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the gover...

I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - le...

I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from bei...

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy withwhich we all begin as chi...

Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whethe...

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you ...

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like...

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructe...

Let us leave political questions to be decided by the powers concerned," Sir Ralph would say, "as we...

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by...

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

Everybody says that I have a lot of power. But what does that power consist of?... Can I influence g...

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

My father once told me that American democracy is a people’s democracy at heart, and that it therefo...

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutio...

It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The r...

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, w...

Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.

All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever pla...

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial rela...

Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, un...

The weak have one weapon - the errors of those who think they are strong.

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.

Government should not be involved in marriage at all, I believe. There’s no reason for it. I don’t g...

We must sober up and admit that too many of the Republicans and the Democrats have played us, lied t...

There is also a trilogy of books out. I started reading right after Christmas Divergent. I went to r...

Most young people have rebellious, anti-authoritarian impulses. They don't like being told what, whe...

It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow...

The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class p...

In fact, caucus, a word derived from the Algonquin languages, better reflected the layers of talking...

It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I reco...

With modern technology it is the easiest of tasks for a media, guided by a narrow group of political...

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americ...

It may sound peculiar coming from an old punk rocker, but I strongly believe that governmental polic...

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justi...