Government Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

144 Government Quotes
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
Edward Abbey Quotes
“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”
Voltaire Quotes
“Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.”
Daniel P. Moynihan Quotes
“I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.”
Woody Allen Quotes
“There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you”
Will Rogers Quotes
“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
Winston Churchill Quotes
“Good government is no substitute for self-government”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
Patrick Henry Quotes
“Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”
Ayn Rand Quotes
“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes
“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
Ayn Rand Quotes
“An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.”
Confucius Quotes
“A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
“"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams”
Sam Adams Quotes
“My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes
“The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.”
Albert Einstein Quotes
“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, subsidise it”
Ronald Reagan Quotes
“They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.”
George W. Bush Quotes
“So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.”
Elbert Hubbard Quotes
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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