Government Quotes
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.Edward Abbey
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.John Adams
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.Bertrand Russell
Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is... Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.Jeff Melvoin
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.Thomas Jefferson
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.Richard M. Nixon
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.Thomas Jefferson
The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.Voltaire
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 Confucian Analects
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.Edward Abbey
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.Voltaire
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.Daniel Patrick Moynihan
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.James Madison
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984
On account of us 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
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.James Madison
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.William H. Borah
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.Thomas Jefferson
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.Thomas Paine
There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.Joseph Bonaparte
That government is best which governs least. - From Civil Disobedience.Henry David Thoreau
Government expands to absorb revenue - And then some.Tom Wicke
Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.Henry David Thoreau
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.Benjamin Franklin
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth - Rate men.Henry B. Adams
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.Tom Robbins
All government - - Indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - - Is founded on compromise and barter.Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.Ludwig Mises
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.Thomas Paine, in his "The Rights of Man" (1791)
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.Ronald Reagan
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.Chester Bowles
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.Bertrand Russell
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.Ansel Adams
