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Government Quotes


"Constitution...no power is given to the Federal Government to acquire..."

Full 'George Graham Vest' Quote   Source: George Graham Vest
"[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But..."

Full 'Chet Huntley' Quote   Source: Chet Huntley
"A government for the people must depend for its success on the..."

Full 'Grover Cleveland' Quote   Source: Grover Cleveland
"A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master."

Full 'George Washington' Quote   Source: George Washington
"A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away."

Full 'Boris Yeltsin' Quote   Source: Boris Yeltsin
"A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top."

Full 'James Reston' Quote   Source: James Reston
"A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not..."

Full 'Otto Von Bismarck' Quote   Source: Otto Von Bismarck
"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to"

Full 'Barry Goldwater' Quote   Source: Barry Goldwater
"great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for..."

Full 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn' Quote   Source: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"ready to defend his country against his government."

Full 'Edward Abbey' Quote   Source: Edward Abbey
"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the"

Full 'James Garfield' Quote   Source: James Garfield
"against society, unless the parents hold a government license... All..."

Full 'Dixy Lee Ray' Quote   Source: Dixy Lee Ray
"Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply..."

Full 'Robert Jackson' Quote   Source: Robert Jackson
"Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it..."

Full 'Ilka Chase' Quote   Source: Ilka Chase
"Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that..."

Full 'Winston Churchill' Quote   Source: Winston Churchill
"Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do"

Full 'Winston Churchill' Quote   Source: Winston Churchill
"Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave..."

Full 'Joseph Heller' Quote   Source: Joseph Heller
"participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular..."

Full 'Corazon Aquino' Quote   Source: Corazon Aquino
"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."

Full 'Bertrand Russell' Quote   Source: Bertrand Russell
"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."

Full 'Bertrand Russell' Quote   Source: Bertrand Russell
"Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car"

Full 'P J O'Rourke' Quote   Source: P J O'Rourke
"Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car"

Full 'P. J. O'rourke' Quote   Source: P. J. O'rourke
"Government doesn?t raise children; families do."

Full 'Al Gore' Quote   Source: Al Gore
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants...."

Full 'Jimmy Carter' Quote   Source: Jimmy Carter
"Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes..."

Full 'Sam Ervin' Quote   Source: Sam Ervin
"Government is no bottomless pit of money - it?s from you and me."

Full 'Jesse Ventura' Quote   Source: Jesse Ventura
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is..."

Full 'George Washington' Quote   Source: George Washington
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Full 'Thomas Jefferson' Quote   Source: Thomas Jefferson
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Full 'George Byron' Quote   Source: George Byron
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Full 'William James' Quote   Source: William James
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst"

Full 'Thomas Paine' Quote   Source: Thomas Paine
"Governments still pin their faith to some new economic nostrum which is..."

Full 'Edith Clara Summerskill' Quote   Source: Edith Clara Summerskill
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:..."

Full 'Ronald Reagan' Quote   Source: Ronald Reagan
"mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich..."

Full 'Grover Cleveland' Quote   Source: Grover Cleveland
"damage it does to my spirit, because if my government takes a life in..."

Full 'Steve Earle' Quote   Source: Steve Earle
"peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their..."

Full 'Dwight D Eisenhower' Quote   Source: Dwight D Eisenhower
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many..."

Full 'Thomas Jefferson' Quote   Source: Thomas Jefferson
"a great question about whether or not government should intrude in that..."

Full 'Mitt Romney ' Quote   Source: Mitt Romney
"women and drinking, you would have no government...."

Full 'Barry Goldwater' Quote   Source: Barry Goldwater
"If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really..."

Full 'Bella Abzug' Quote   Source: Bella Abzug
"truly stable foundation for a democratic government, I will live forever in..."

Full 'Chiang Kai-Shek' Quote   Source: Chiang Kai-Shek
"If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go..."

Full 'Peggy Noonan' Quote   Source: Peggy Noonan
"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year..."

Full 'Will Rogers' Quote   Source: Will Rogers
"If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the..."

Full 'George Will' Quote   Source: George Will
"has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by..."

Full 'Gerald Ford' Quote   Source: Gerald Ford
"In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of..."

Full 'Dwight D Eisenhower' Quote   Source: Dwight D Eisenhower
"error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by"

Full 'Thomas Jefferson' Quote   Source: Thomas Jefferson
"It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling..."

Full 'Robert Jackson' Quote   Source: Robert Jackson
"It is perfectly true that the government is best which governs least. It is..."

Full 'Walter Lippman' Quote   Source: Walter Lippman
"embarrassing. You try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the"

Full 'Abbie Hoffman' Quote   Source: Abbie Hoffman
"written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is..."

Full 'John Erskine' Quote   Source: John Erskine
"unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission..."

Full 'Ivan Turgenev' Quote   Source: Ivan Turgenev
"is the condition of that people whose government can be sustained only by a..."

Full 'James Polk' Quote   Source: James Polk
"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments..."

Full 'Joseph Conrad' Quote   Source: Joseph Conrad
"tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and..."

Full 'Edward Abbey' Quote   Source: Edward Abbey
"Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens"

Full 'John Foster Dulles' Quote   Source: John Foster Dulles
"situation illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the..."

Full 'Jefferson Davis' Quote   Source: Jefferson Davis
"be broken. Like Thoreau, I think that government is best which governs"

Full 'Michael Isenberg' Quote   Source: Michael Isenberg
"Say 'no, thank you' to government funds for your religious ministries. You..."

Full 'Wanda Henry' Quote   Source: Wanda Henry
"Since government is concerned with the administration of the country as a..."

Full 'Hirobumi Ito' Quote   Source: Hirobumi Ito
"That government is best which governs least."

Full 'Henry David Thoreau' Quote   Source: Henry David Thoreau
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people"

Full 'Thomas Jefferson' Quote   Source: Thomas Jefferson
"essential to the preservation of a free government...."

Full 'Sam Houston' Quote   Source: Sam Houston
"The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to..."

Full 'Conan O'brien' Quote   Source: Conan O'brien
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter,..."

Full 'P J O'Rourke' Quote   Source: P J O'Rourke
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter,..."

Full 'P. J. O'rourke' Quote   Source: P. J. O'rourke
"The government is afraid of the guns people have because they have control..."

Full 'Timothy Mcveigh' Quote   Source: Timothy Mcveigh
"The Government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a healthy appetite..."

Full 'Ronald Reagan' Quote   Source: Ronald Reagan
"criminals than any other single act of government."

Full 'Barry Goldwater' Quote   Source: Barry Goldwater
"of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."

Full 'Thomas Jefferson' Quote   Source: Thomas Jefferson
"greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices..."

Full 'James Polk' Quote   Source: James Polk
"greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices..."

Full 'James Polk' Quote   Source: James Polk
"The theory of government changes with general progress."

Full 'Ulysses S Grant' Quote   Source: Ulysses S Grant
"There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of"

Full 'Stokely Carmichael' Quote   Source: Stokely Carmichael
"There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and..."

Full 'Emmeline Pankhurst' Quote   Source: Emmeline Pankhurst
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some"

Full 'George W Bush' Quote   Source: George W Bush
"Boomers may have lost faith in the federal government, X'ers never had..."

Full 'Auren Hoffman' Quote   Source: Auren Hoffman
"Though the people support the government, the government s hould not"

Full 'Grover Cleveland' Quote   Source: Grover Cleveland
"paradigm, there was only one means--the government school system. The..."

Full 'Diane Ravitch' Quote   Source: Diane Ravitch
"Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions...are ever..."

Full 'Walter Lippman' Quote   Source: Walter Lippman
"accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get..."

Full 'George Farquhar' Quote   Source: George Farquhar
"fathers made the great experiment of self-government..."

Full 'James Garfield' Quote   Source: James Garfield
"We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk."

Full 'Millicent Fenwick' Quote   Source: Millicent Fenwick
"policy and no discernible connection to government...."

Full 'Florence King' Quote   Source: Florence King
"We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of..."

Full 'Kurt Vonnegut' Quote   Source: Kurt Vonnegut
"me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or..."

Full 'Thomas Jefferson' Quote   Source: Thomas Jefferson
"When a government takes over a people?s economic life it becomes absolute,..."

Full 'Maxwell Anderson' Quote   Source: Maxwell Anderson
"When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when..."

Full 'Sam Ervin' Quote   Source: Sam Ervin
"Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship."

Full 'Harry Truman' Quote   Source: Harry Truman