Government Quotes :: Finest Quotes

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

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

Edward Abbey

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

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Aristotle

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

Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper. This dims the sense of reality

David E. Lilienthal

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions

Edward R. Murrow

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote

George Jean Nathan

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

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

John Adams

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal

P. J. O\'Rourke

Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

Robert Coles

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

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern

Lord John Emerich

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

John Quincy 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

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost

Aristotle

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

Clement Attlee

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat

Sri da Avabhas

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious

Sir Francis Bacon

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy

Roger Nash Baldwin

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful

Mary Catherine Bateson

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