We have collected the best Government Quotes by famous authors including Joe Wilson, Gita Gopinath, P. J. O’Rourke, Napoleon Bonaparte, Jarvis Cocker and many others, we hope that among them you will find the right thought.
The government serves the people – not vice-versa.
Joe Wilson
If a debt crisis results from government profligacy and mismanagement, rather than from a market failure, it is true that the central bank should not intervene.
Gita Gopinath
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O’Rourke
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.
Jarvis Cocker
The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn’t helped users or addicts.
Victor Mitchell
In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.
John Lanchester
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to ‘create’ rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
The Japanese government has accepted the notion that Japan is the loser, and it appears to be going to accept unconditional surrender. Such a position frustrates the officers and soldiers of the imperial armed forces.
Hideki Tojo
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
Martin Van Buren
I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.
Chen Guangbiao
Government should make tough decisions in the larger national interests, even if it upsets the people.
Sharad Pawar
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
Ralph Nader
My government’s first aim will be to bring peace to Mexico.
Enrique Pena Nieto
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
Thomas Jefferson
Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.
Subcomandante Marcos
Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan
I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
William Hague
I was nervous about a Corbyn government, although I would have supported it because a lot of the policies were good. I was far more nervous of a Conservative government but here it is, we’ve just got to deal with it.
Roger Allam
Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.
Lindsey Graham
I believe investigative agencies should be run in an autonomous manner, and there shouldn’t be any interference from the government’s side.
Piyush Goyal
Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!
Joe Biden
There is only one kind of freedom and that’s individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
Ron Paul
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Woodrow Wilson
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
William Penn
I’m sure that the standard of public morality we’ve helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.
Tommy Douglas
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
William E. Gladstone
A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it’s better to produce ‘real things’ than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.
Christina Romer
The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal.
Alexis Carrel
Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders – companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.
Ma Jun
The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.
Ronald Reagan
In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?
Bill Gates
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
Bernard Baruch
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
James Q. Wilson
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
Martin Van Buren
Now is the time for all Alaskans to come together and reach out with our core message of taking power from the federal government and bringing it back home to the people.
Joe Miller
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken
You could afford your house without the government if it weren’t for the government.
Rush Limbaugh
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
Henry A. Wallace
The school system has become a part of this huge government machine, governed by people who aren’t close to the situation. That’s why I’m a Republican. I believe in small government.
Stacey Dash
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson
If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
Haile Selassie
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
Benjamin Disraeli
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Thomas Jefferson
What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.
Mark Levin
Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.
Elon Musk
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
Vladimir Lenin
Government unions should not be allowed to influence the public officials they are lobbying, and sitting across the bargaining table from, through campaign donations and expenditures.
Bruce Rauner
The government should train and direct the people in their acquisition of political knowledge and ability, thereby enabling them to exercise the powers of election, recall, initiative, and referendum.
Sun Yat-sen
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I’m killing somebody.
Steve Earle
I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies.
Henry Paulson
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.
Will Rogers
The Right’s view of government and the Left’s view of big business are both correct.
Robert Anton Wilson
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Thomas Jefferson
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson
When I wrote ‘The West Wing,’ the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?
Aaron Sorkin
All government, of course, is against liberty.
H. L. Mencken
I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party.
John Kennedy
Are we really going to accept the situation where the government of Lithuania has more power over our trading relationship with the Commonwealth than our government does? That is the reality of the customs union.
Chris Grayling
A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.
Annie Besant
I believe in lower taxes. I believe in more efficient government. I believe in reducing bureaucracy. I believe that we shouldn’t have lobbyists who can go in or former government workers who can come back and lobby.
Mark Cuban
Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.
Thomas Woods
Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.
Tony Evans
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
Alexander Hamilton
Strengthening the system and spirit of cooperative federalism, my government is taking the states along to achieve national goals.
Ram Nath Kovind
It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government.
Mitt Romney
Instead of helping a lucky few to escape disadvantage, a Labour government will aim to abolish poverty completely and create a more equal society, raising the living standards and well-being of all.
Angela Rayner
Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There’s no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn’t a gift. It’s a responsibility.
Dalton Trumbo
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
Madeleine Albright
By mandating equal pay, the government erases the competitive advantage of those people who are willing to take less pay. In addition, employers are less willing to hire employees who they believe could subject them to increased liability.
Kane
I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it’s the government.
Woody Allen
I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.
Ferdinand Marcos
I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.
Joe Biden
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
James Madison
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli
I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
Abraham Lincoln
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
James Madison
One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government – and they aren’t going to like it.
Huey Long
Majority rule only works if you’re also considering individual rights. Because you can’t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Larry Flynt
A man’s natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.
Lysander Spooner
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
Beau Willimon
The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.
Martin Van Buren
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington
The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don’t enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.
Michael Badnarik
True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.
Herbert Hoover
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
Andrew Jackson
Mobilize your friends and neighbors to understand that your day-to-day involvement with local government matters far more than a referendum on the White House every four years.
Michelle Wu
Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.
Thich Nhat Hanh
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.
Richard Perle
To meet someone who wants to fight to just tell the truth about what’s happening in government… this is a real life superhero right here.
Aja Naomi King
You have the God-given right to kick the government around – don’t hesitate to do so.
Edmund S. Muskie
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
Joe Biden
All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.
John Walters
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Abraham Lincoln
Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
Nathan Meyer Rothschild
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
Samuel Chase
If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
Belle Boyd
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
Chinua Achebe
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
James Fenimore Cooper
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement Attlee
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
Stokely Carmichael
I actually think that working in the federal government, or state or local, is one of the most significant things that a technical person can do.
Megan Smith
The government, of course, will print money to bail out the banks’ uncovered casino bets, but not to bail out the elderly from the theft of their funds.
Paul Craig Roberts
I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it.
Alexander Woollcott
In the public sector, there are a million people in the health service. There ought to be a couple of dozen or more on the Labour side, who learned their trade in different parts of the health service, and the public sector, and local government. And bus drivers, and people on the Underground.
Dennis Skinner
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
Montesquieu
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau
Government has to be cut back like asparagus… every day… or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there’s too much of it, the flower becomes a weed.
Paul Harvey
In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true – demand for our services increases in hard times.
Sonny Perdue
The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.
George Deukmejian
I’m the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.
Josh Mandel
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers
I am almost inclined to say that India will get Dominion Responsible Government the day the Hindus and Muslims are united.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Everything that makes man’s life worthwhile – family, work, education, a place to rear one’s children and a place to rest one’s head – all this depends on the decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people, and I mean all of its people.
Robert Kennedy
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
Willie Nelson
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush’s ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.
Donald Sutherland
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
Lysander Spooner
The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.
Chris Stewart
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
Andrew Jackson
As a businessperson, I don’t have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
Tadashi Yanai
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
In city hall and in local government, you have to get things done without drama.
Jim Gray
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
James Madison
As long as I don’t write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Pierre Beaumarchais
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
John Stuart Mill
Al Gore had no problem taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar to sell his Current TV to Al Jazeera America.
Ben Shapiro
I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what’s happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property.
Milton Friedman
We are farmers, nobody in the family has a government job and my family has been supporting me with difficulty. But it is a sort of relief now that I am able to support my family financially besides continuing with my training.
Neeraj Chopra
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Andrew Jackson
Many senior government officials, CIA, FBI, counter terrorism officials – when they look back at the decade, they effectively conclude that the United States overreacted after 9/11.
Richard Engel
After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.
Howard Coble
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Andrew Jackson
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Socialism’s not a word that I use. I say ‘social democracy’ because I don’t think the government needs to own all the means of production.
David Cunliffe
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
Woodrow Wilson
The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy. In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing, and by what authority, many in the public fill the void by envisioning the worst.
Jeh Johnson
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
Mikhail Gorbachev
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
Theresa May
I try to put myself in others’ shoes: How does any country give up any sovereignty and expect to survive as a government? I don’t think that any Philippine president, or any leader for that matter, can afford to give up any portion of territorial sovereignty. That would be political suicide.
Benigno Aquino III
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Alexander Hamilton
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
I don’t think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn’t surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
Andy Rooney
You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.
Rob McKenna
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Wendell Phillips
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Dalai Lama
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.
Lyn Nofziger
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton
The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact – based indeed on solid journalistic work.
Malcolm Turnbull
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
Ron Paul
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.
Robert Toombs
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes
There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
Katharine Graham
It is unethical to promote old songs sung by new artistes, and the government should ban these things.
Asha Bhosle
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
Ronald Reagan
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
Buffalo Bill
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
Arlen Specter
I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
Jacqueline Novogratz
Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it’s completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It’s all the participants in the network enforcing.
Naval Ravikant
Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
Rush Limbaugh
From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.
Jimmy Reid
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel Adams
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
James Madison
I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early ’60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.
Ron Paul
In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
Abraham Lincoln
One of the things the government can’t do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
Lee Iacocca
The government will see that human spaceflight is useful – for science and the economy – and inspirational.
Helen Sharman
If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.
John Kennedy
For the bourgeoisie, the main danger against which it had to be protected, that which had to be avoided at all costs, was armed uprising, was the armed people, was the workers taking to the streets in an assault against the government.
Michel Foucault
The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.
Lysander Spooner
It is not good to have a rule of many.
Homer
For two centuries the English countryside has been an icon of national identity and the loved reminder of our island home. Yet the government is bent on littering the hills with wind turbines and the valleys with high speed railways.
Roger Scruton
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein
Government should fear the people, not the other way around.
Killer Mike
Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It’s the federal government and the Justice Department. It’s a fraud; it’s a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.
James Meredith
Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it; it is given life only through the national mind, that is to say, by political faith, which is a creed.
Joseph de Maistre
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Charles Barkley
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.
Barack Obama
I stated that aboriginals deserve protection under Canada’s human rights laws and that the record dollars that the government is spending on aboriginals should reach the people in need.
Pierre Poilievre
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
William Beveridge
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
Chester Bowles
Majority rule only works if you’re also considering individual rights. Because you can’t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Larry Flynt
I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Certainly in North Korea, man is always superior to woman. Even the government treats women horribly. What is the slogan? Woman is a flower.
Lee Hyeon-seo
The United States influences government and life everywhere else.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
James Madison
All government wars are unjust.
Murray Rothbard
I think the government should do everything they possibly can to, to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going after BP, enforcing the laws that are on the books, and restoring the gulf to its original condition.
John Boehner
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny – they should be setting the example of transparency.
Edward Snowden
The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.
Tom Fitton
The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand
It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
James A. Garfield
Gold and silver are always in demand, regardless of clime, century, or government in power. But public confidence in and, hence, demand for paper money depends on the ultimate confidence – or lack thereof – of the public in the viability of the issuing government.
Murray Rothbard
You can’t start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.
Ani DiFranco
We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops… and force migratory birds to stay where they are.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
Jeremy Bentham
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
John Locke
During an economic crisis, what matters is that the government keeps its foot on the accelerator.
David Ignatius
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
John Sharp Williams
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
Ronald Reagan
I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.
Clint Eastwood
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
Adam Weishaupt
I didn’t think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.
Fred Korematsu
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
Pope Francis
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken
Democracy must learn to defend itself.
Mikhail Gorbachev
If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it’s a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also – to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
P. J. O’Rourke
I was deposed by a coup d’etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos
If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.
Fred Woodworth
In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.
Johnny Isakson
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Thomas Jefferson
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Alexander Hamilton
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
James Monroe
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Voltaire
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
I don’t blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don’t have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
Jack Canfield
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
Will Rogers
I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm
Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.
Rick Scott
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
Benazir Bhutto
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O’Rourke
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.
Tom Stoppard
Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
Rafael Cruz
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison
Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.
King George V
Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers – we need our faith-based and community partners.
Dirk Kempthorne
I was ecstatic they re-named ‘French Fries’ as ‘Freedom Fries’. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
Johnny Depp
I did not come to Augusta to provide lip service. I came to work for the Maine people. I also came to Augusta to root out crooked politicians and government corruption.
Paul LePage
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
Vladimir Lenin
Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
Harriet Tubman
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it’s only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
Jose Saramago
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.
Lysander Spooner
In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
Cal Thomas
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
Gerald R. Ford
The License Raj in India was a time when, to set up an industry, you needed a license. Which made the government an omnipresent and sort of all-pervasive authority.
Kumar Mangalam Birla
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges
I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read ‘Democracy in America’ by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.
Kurt Vonnegut
Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
Aung San Suu Kyi
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
I want people to feel like they have access to Congress, that they have access to government.
Rashida Tlaib
Because I became a refugee in Macau during 1941, we had this war in Hong Kong, I fought for the government as an air raid warden for 15 days. Our government surrendered, Hong Kong Government surrendered, so I took a junk and came to Macau in 16 hours and I was a refugee, so that’s why I was so much indebted to Macau.
Stanley Ho
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Ambrose Bierce
The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.
Ezra Taft Benson
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Adlai Stevenson I
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
Ezra Stiles
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
Those of us in public office and those of us who aspire to public office have a responsibility to be reasonable, fact-based, in our rhetoric and to not suggest things that are unreasonable, to whip up a lot of emotion in public, which can lead to government overreach, fear, suspicions, and prejudice.
Jeh Johnson
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Ronald Reagan
Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
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.
George Washington
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it’s an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
Tony Blair
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.
Lysander Spooner
My family is just like most other families – we rise and fall on good and bad government policy. Politics affects us all.
Jess Phillips
Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
Gavin Newsom
Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men’s lives.
Robert Kennedy
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
George Will
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.
John Marshall
The PML-N is working on the lines of ‘humanity first,’ and the government, as such, has taken every possible step to improve the living standard of less privileged associates of our society.
Shehbaz Sharif
All socialism involves slavery.
Herbert Spencer
I work for the British people. I do not gather intelligence so the government can lie to the British people.
Katharine Gun
Aggression is simply another name for government.
Benjamin Tucker
Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.
Bill Owens
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men’s property, which they had not before, as individuals.
Lysander Spooner
Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Ronald Reagan
Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.
Nelson Mandela
In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident – in the way that only 17-year-olds are – that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.
Bonnie Raitt
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.
Lauren DeStefano
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Thomas Jefferson
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
Tom Clancy
Government leaders, researchers, physicians, the pharmaceutical industry, cancer advocates, and many other stakeholders all have a key role in promoting a safer, healthier environment, better nutrition, increased physical activity, and a new emphasis on prevention in cancer research.
Margaret Cuomo
In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government.
Angela Rayner
The majority of the wealth of human knowledge is owned by a few publishing companies that hoard information and make billions off licensing fees, although most scholarly articles and journals are paid for by taxpayers through government grants.
Abby Martin
Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.
Grover Cleveland
Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice – that struggle continues.
Bernie Sanders
The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated.
Jose Rizal
This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.
Paul Robeson
All socialism involves slavery.
Herbert Spencer
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
P. J. O’Rourke
It is often said that definitions of Islamic government are imprecise. To me, however, they seemed to have a clarity that was completely familiar and also, it must be said, far from reassuring.
Michel Foucault
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey
I love my country. It’s just the government I don’t trust.
Sixto Rodriguez
The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue… A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.
Ben Carson
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
John Adams
The laws given on Mount Sinai for the government of man and woman were equal; the precepts of Jesus make no distinction.
Lucretia Mott
A government of laws, and not of men.
John Adams
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle
I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.
Ferdinand Marcos
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
Benazir Bhutto
I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
Robert E. Lee
The Padma Shri came as a very pleasant surprise. I am deeply honoured. I don’t know what I did to deserve it, but I must have done something right to be honoured by our government.
Sridevi
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
Friedrich August von Hayek
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
Noah Webster
The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.
James K. Polk
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
J. C. Watts
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash – a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A.
Milton Friedman
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
John Perry Barlow
Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.
Anthony Albanese
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Milton Friedman
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
Will Rogers
Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I’ve never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I’ve never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.
Arthur Laffer
No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
Noah Webster
Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.
Aaron Schock
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius
The federal government of Nigeria has always preferred to talk to bona fide Boko Haram leaders about the release of the Chibok girls, but we must have a credible person or persons that will intervene, preferably United Nations or NGOs.
Muhammadu Buhari
Building sustainable cities – and a sustainable future – will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders – including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
Ban Ki-moon
It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.
Elon Musk
As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
Bill Owens
On trade, a Conservative government would challenge China’s actions on canola and meat imports through the World Trade Organization and withdraw funding from the Chinese-run Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank.
Erin O’Toole
The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see.
Alice Paul
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
Tony Blair
I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
David Rockefeller
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.
Elihu Root
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
Milton Friedman
We can’t have democracy if we’re having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we’ve never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.
Larry Page
No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.
Benjamin Harrison
There’s a total separation between the federal government and the people. So running for president was an attempt on my part to get people to care enough to go vote. But people just don’t bother. And that’s why it’s not working.
Joe Walsh
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln
First, we must stop issuing drivers’ licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.
Bobby Jindal
We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs.
Sam Graves
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
Margaret Thatcher
The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.
John Hancock
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
Camille Paglia
The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity, you create business, you create development, you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.
Mohammad bin Salman
I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.
John Kennedy
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.
Margaret Thatcher
Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a ‘government’; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.
Lysander Spooner
I don’t care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.
Rand Paul
Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.
bell hooks
The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies – rather than as your civic duty – is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.
Tom G. Palmer
The responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are, the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus on the government.
Azim Premji
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw
This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it’s all checks and no balances.
Gracie Allen
Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.
Michelle Malkin
While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government’s letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.
Richard Jewell
Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.
Pratibha Patil
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can’t live within its income.
Robert Half
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I am in favour of disinvestment. But if a disinvested company has to tie up with a government company for its livelihood, there is a problem.
Ratan Tata
Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation – the result of which is impossible to predict.
Malcolm Mclaren
Government is essentially immoral.
Herbert Spencer
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Andrew Jackson
Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment.
Howard Baker
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
As I prepare to take over the reins of your government, I ask each of you to join me in the process of governing.
David Ige
Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress – it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency.
Chris Chocola
My ideas are threatening to the government.
Fela Kuti
We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
A Supreme Court justice must convince at least four colleagues to bind the federal government nationwide, whereas a district court judge issuing a nationwide injunction needn’t convince anyone.
William Barr
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Jeremy Bentham
When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in ‘The Darkest Minds,’ I researched the Japanese internment camps here in the United States, specifically propaganda the government used, and how they capitalized on people’s fears.
Alexandra Bracken
Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
Gerald R. Ford
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Thomas Carlyle
Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
Bill Gates
The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
B. R. Ambedkar
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Will Durant
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Just when we need a strong government, what do we see? Division. Chaos. And failure. No credible plan for Brexit, no solution to prevent a hard border in Ireland and no majority in Parliament for the Chequers proposals.
Keir Starmer
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
James Madison
Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.
Said Musa
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Thomas Jefferson
A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
Otto von Bismarck
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
James Madison
I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government – the Kennedy administration at that time – into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen.
James Meredith
When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Marquis de Lafayette
Socialism means slavery.
John Dalberg-Acton
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
Andrew Jackson
It is important to realize that gold and silver are international commodities and that, therefore, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are perfectly capable of serving as standard moneys.
Murray Rothbard
A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.
Ron DeSantis
I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers’ problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.
Narendra Modi
People thought I was trying to say that women had no say, no rights. I was not saying that. I was saying that women had a role, a duty. When they want to have a say in government – though in Africa they are not expected to do that – they are not discouraged. They can do what they want to do.
Fela Kuti
The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.
John Quincy Adams
No matter where you stand politically – even if you’re unsure of what your political ideology is – it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.
Brad Henry
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
Thomas Sowell
No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.
Joe Biden
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
Alexander Hamilton
A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.
Al Gore
If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
Abraham Lincoln
The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.
Michael J. Saylor
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris
My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.
John F. Kennedy
Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
Lyn Nofziger
The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.
Narendra Modi
I know that government doesn’t have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.
Kathleen Blanco
The era of roadside decisions, declarations have gone. My government’s decisions will be guided by teamwork and consultations.
Mwai Kibaki
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.
John Roberts
I do think voters are ready for a change in Olympia and after 28 years of one party rule, they are ready to put a new team on the field and bring a new approach to state government.
Rob McKenna
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
Alan Dershowitz
I’m a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can’t challenge the man I’m with if means I’m going to end up alone.
Jane Fonda
You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.
Paul Keating
We have had 10 years of bad governance, and we may not recover if another bad government is elected.
Amarinder Singh
Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility.
Pranab Mukherjee
The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech.
Judith Butler
Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Louis D. Brandeis
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.
Abraham Lincoln
I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.
Bob Hawke
During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
Al Franken
I spent a lot of my early blogging career sort of highlighting all the ills of the government in Kenya and all the corruption and problems.
Ory Okolloh
If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.
Terry Pratchett
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
Robert Jackson
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Voltaire
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
Thomas Sowell
I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government’s feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.
Jesse Ventura
We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and it offers as many paths of the true intelligible species and objects of infallible and sole truth as there are individual pedants.
Giordano Bruno
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
Abraham Lincoln
Growth is what solves most of the big economic and social problems: poverty, government deficits, quality of life, rising healthcare and retirement costs.
Sergio Ermotti
If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?
Pete du Pont
I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
Bobby Fischer
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn’t be so bad if the next Congress didn’t keep trying to correct them.
Cullen Hightower
Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can’t resolve the problem of women’s pantyhose. There’s no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Globalization doesn’t have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.
John B. Larson
If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.
Henry David Thoreau
If we say, ‘The government sucks,’ we’re kind of saying that we suck.
Michael Moore
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.
Paul Harvey
Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.
Thomas Sowell
SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.
Elon Musk
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
John Wycliffe
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
Noam Chomsky
When you give the government an inch, they take a mile.
Matt Salmon
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.
Noam Chomsky
The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,… Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don’t want to do that and that’s their decision.
Ho Chi Minh
Today we see how utterly mistaken was the Milton Friedman notion that a market system can regulate itself… Everyone understands now, on the contrary, that there can be no solution without government.
Paul Samuelson
All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities… toward full European integration.
Igor Luksic
A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
Ronald Reagan
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
Dale Dauten
Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
Rick Perry
Louisiana’s spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government.
John Kennedy
The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.
Tom G. Palmer
I was at MSNBC; I was constantly saying to them during Bridgegate, ‘You’ve convicted Governor Christie without one iota of fact attaching him to the decision to stall the traffic on the bridge. Why don’t we wait until the federal government or the state government… completes its investigation.’
Tom Brokaw
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Ronald Reagan
The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
Barack Obama
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton
Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.
Muhtar Kent
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.
Margaret Thatcher
No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins ‘we the people’, not ‘us the government’.
Cal Thomas
The multi-party agreement, known as the Global Political Agreement (GPA), created the Government of National Unity (GNU) that has acted as Zimbabwe’s governing institution since 2009.
Roy Bennett
Sports in Indonesia aren’t being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don’t match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
Taufik Hidayat
Government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Ayn Rand
For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they’re talking about because they’ve never been to a country with a bad government.
Whitney Tilson
We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Jefferson
I want a smaller government, yes, but I want a government that will be fair.
Maxime Bernier
My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
Narendra Modi
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank Herbert
Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust.
Jose Rizal
As Eric Weitz argues, the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) was not responsible for the Reich; it was a democratic, socially aware and progressive government, way ahead of many other European governments in its introduction of workers’ rights, public housing, unemployment benefit and suffrage for women.
Justin Cartwright
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
John W. Gardner
Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.
Matthew Lesko
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman
We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.
Christopher Reeve
The Ethiopian government’s use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces.
Haile Selassie
Part of Obamacare eliminated the private sector financial market that engages in giving college student loans. I mean, now the federal government has taken over college student loans, so I sit back and strategically look at this and say this just cannot be happening.
Allen West
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Henry Clay
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
Friedrich August von Hayek
To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.
Alice Paul
I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government’s racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.
Harry Oppenheimer
I think governments can’t do much.
Dalai Lama
Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.
Marco Rubio
Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.
Gautam Adani
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon
Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
Hubert H. Humphrey
If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
Victoria Woodhull
The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.
Orson Pratt
Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
Federico Fellini
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
Jerome K. Jerome
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Lily Tomlin
Ultimately, I do want us to be a transformative government. I want, when we’ve left, for people to say we’re not just clean-green anymore: we’re carbon neutral, or we’re striving to be.
Jacinda Ardern
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.
Ronald Reagan
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O’Rourke
Part of the reason that the government’s fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.
James Bovard
Democracy passes into despotism.
Plato
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
Milton Friedman
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.
Marco Rubio
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.
Marco Rubio
Everything government touches turns to crap.
Ringo Starr
Man is not free unless government is limited.
Ronald Reagan
Our party and the Republic’s government will go hand in hand with anyone who truly desires the country’s reunification and the nation’s peaceful prosperity and will make responsible and patient efforts to accomplish the historic cause of the fatherland’s reunification.
Kim Jong-un
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that’s a stable field that the government can’t destroy and can’t distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can’t happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.
Patrick M. Byrne
That government is best which governs least.
Henry David Thoreau
It began to really eat away with me that in the ’60s the federal government, desiring to help poor moms who were dealing with deadbeat dads, decided, ‘We’ll help: we’ll give a check for every child you can have out of wedlock.’
Louie Gohmert
The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.
Dixie Lee Ray
All government wars are unjust.
Murray Rothbard
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John Ruskin
Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
William McKinley
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
Daniel Morgan
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells
Washington is a place where politicians don’t know which way is up and taxes don’t know which way is down.
Robert Orben
Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.
Narendra Modi
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
James K. Polk
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
Golda Meir
Sadly, the system in this country is rigged in favor of wealthy elites who have purchased tremendous influence in our government.
Tulsi Gabbard
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes
Social Security got passed because John D. Rockefeller was sick of having to take money out of his profits to pay for his workers’ pension funds. Why do that, when you can just let the government take money from the workers?
Aaron Swartz
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
Ron Paul
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
Thomas Sowell
The youth should work on popularising central and state government schemes among people. The young generation should make social media their weapon.
Yogi Adityanath
Financial crises require governments.
Timothy Geithner
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey
Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Louis D. Brandeis
I don’t want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire ’em.
Gallagher
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
Louis D. Brandeis
In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
Abraham Lincoln
The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
William Howard Taft
It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.
James Monroe
Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen’s compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.
Meg Whitman
All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
Narendra Modi
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
Edward Gibbon
Rebellion has its roots in government’s indifference and incompetence.
Mike Barnicle
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
Ben Carson
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
Lysander Spooner
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
John Maynard Keynes
Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
Jim DeMint
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
Thomas Sowell
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus
I stated that I’m a libertarian Republican, which means I believe in a series of issues, such as smaller government, constraint on budget deficits, free markets, globalization, and a whole series of other things, including welfare reform.
Alan Greenspan
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
William Penn
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Lily Tomlin
The thing about local government is they want to hear what local people think, but for the most part, their systems are so long, dull and bureaucratic that people only get involved when there’s an issue they really care about.
Konnie Huq
There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.
John C. Calhoun
The decision to have an abortion is a deeply personal decision between a woman, her family, her doctor, her God; not her government, and not the public at large.
Margaret Hoover
Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being.
Joe Lonsdale
The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion – always.
Rick Warren
One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.
Ted Cruz
Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
Donald Rumsfeld
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.
Abraham Lincoln
When times get tough, we get tougher. Failure and government assistance are not an option for us.
Lauren Boebert
In fact, blockchain has the potential to fundamentally change how we share information, buy and sell things, interact with government, prove our identity, and even verify the authenticity of everything – from the food we eat to the medicine we take to who we say we are.
Julie Sweet
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
H. L. Mencken
While I’d like to be able to simply do all of my financings with a handshake or, possibly, on a napkin written in crayon, I also wish I had a herd of unicorns surrounded by rainbows, a balanced U.S. government budget, and agreement on how to address the debt ceiling issue.
Brad Feld
We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism.
Yemi Osinbajo
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
William Inge
Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
George W. Bush
The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don’t. It’s a society where relationships are built on love.
Myles Munroe
There are so many people and organisations that work quietly and diligently for the poor and the disadvantaged. We should also work with unity and purpose to ensure that the benefits of government policies reach all sections of society.
Ram Nath Kovind
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
William Weld
Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan
Success is created in studio apartments and garages, at kitchen tables, and in classrooms across the nation, not in government conference rooms in Washington.
Tim Scott
The ruler who possesses methods of government does not follow the good that happens by chance but practices according to necessary principles. Law, methods, and power must be employed for government: these constitute its ‘necessary principles.’
Han Fei
Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.
Ezra Stiles
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau
Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.
Amity Shlaes
Why is it is claimed that if people won’t or can’t take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?
Ron Paul
Our ability to participate in government, to elect our leaders and to improve our lives is contingent upon our ability to access the ballot. We know in our heart of hearts that voting is a sacred right – the fount from which all other rights flow.
Stacey Abrams
Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
Benazir Bhutto
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Confucius
Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.
Pratibha Patil
I have said it previously and saying it again… my government will work for betterment of all, irrespective of caste or religion.
Yogi Adityanath
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
William Inge
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Isaac Asimov
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken
Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys’ network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.
Jimmy Reid
There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.
Ron Paul
When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
Ron Paul
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Ronald Reagan
Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.
Thomas Sowell
You can auction coal blocks. All natural resources of government should be auctioned.
Subramanian Swamy
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
As far as the constitution allows me, I will try to ensure that there is responsible and accountable governance at all levels of government in the country. For I will not have kept my own trust with the Nigerian people if I allow others abuse theirs under my watch.
Muhammadu Buhari
Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.
John Perry Barlow
The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.
Neal Boortz
A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases.
Lysander Spooner
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
Buenaventura Durruti
The human spirit is stronger than any government or institution.
Fela Kuti
