Government Quotes, Sayings about The Government
+3Every nation has the government that it deserves.
- Joseph Maistre
+3A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
+3In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
- George Washington
+3The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.
- Bill Clinton
+2If physics is the universe’s operating system, then an intelligence estimate is life’s core dump.
+1To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1The safety of the State is the highest law.
- Justinian
+1What Washington needs is adult super vision.
- Barack Obama
+1Talk is cheap – except when Congress does it.
- Cullen Hightower
+1Those are governed best who are governed least.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
- Edward R. Murrow
+1Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.
- Lao Tsze
+1I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
- Henry L Mencken
+1Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
- P. J. O’Rourke
+1Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
- H.L. Mencken
+1States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
- Noam Chomsky
+1Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.
- Alan Coren
+1A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.
- Harry S Truman
+1For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.
- Paul Martin
+1Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
- Joseph Heller
+1Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficient.
- Louis Brandeis
+1Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
- Charles Frankel
+1I’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
+1Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
- Will Rogers
+1The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1All you need to know is this. You can never go wrong by voting for a bill that fails, or against a bill that passes.
- Senator Robert
+1Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
- Benjamin Lichtenberg
+1The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
- George Washington
+1Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- President Ronald
+1Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1The thought that… I would say anything on the euro other than what’s the government’s position is absolutely barmy.
- Denis MacShane
+1It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
- John Gardner
+1I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
- Elmer Davis
+1Every single member of this Labour government, if you go back 20 years, has made the most extraordinary 180 degree turn.
- Brian Feeney
+1The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
- Eugene McCarthy
+1The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
- Plato
+1Themistocles said, “The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.”
- Plutarch
+1It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
- Mark Twain
