Government Quotes :: Finest Quotes

~ You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them ~

Russell Chatham

~ Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary ~

Reinhold Niebuhr

~ To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. ~

Wendell Phillips

~ Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right ~

William Allen White

~ Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else ~

Nicolas Walter

~ If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also ~

Fred Woodworth

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

Lord Acton

~ Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists ~

John Kenneth Galbraith

~ Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life ~

Elmer Davis

~ Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy. ~

Charles Frankel

~ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~

Aesop

~ By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more ~

Albert Camus

~ The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime ~

Albert Einstein

~ A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves ~

Edward R. Murrow

~ It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment ~

Elie Wiesel

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