Government Quotes & Sayings

~ The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction ... the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them. ~

Leo Tolstoy 1828

~ Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. ~

Abraham Lincoln

~ Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ~

James Russell Lowell

~ The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments ~

William Edgar Borah

~ The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves ~

William Ellery Channing

~ Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military ~

William Orville Douglas

~ I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it ~

Dwight David Eisenhower

~ All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people ~

James Abram Garfield

~ 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

~ What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it ~

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

~ The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ 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

~ Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children ~

Lyndon Baines Johnson

~ Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer ~

Ludwig von Mises

~ It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home ~

William Ewart Gladstone

~ Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. ~

G. K. Chesterton

~ A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. ~

Edward Abbey

~ Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. ~

Clement Atlee

~ I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit ~

Grover Cleveland

~ If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century -- and the economy -- around. ~

Bella Abzug

~ It may be true that the government that governs best governs least. Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst. ~

Jane Auer

~ If government were a product, selling it would be illegal ~

P. J. O\'Rourke

~ The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned -- this is the sum of good government ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws ~

Edward Abbey

~ Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other ~

John Quincy Adams

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