Government Quotes
82 quotations about Government
Fear is the foundation of most government.
Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.
Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
Public instruction should be the first object of government.
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
The less government we have the better.
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
An educated people can be easily governed.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Authors on Government
John Adams
Maury Amsterdam
Joy Baluch
Honore De Balzac
Henry Ward Beecher
Napoleon Bonaparte
Count Boytzwnburg
Basil Bunting
Edmund Burke
John S. Caldwell
Albert Camus
John Jay Chapman
Grover Cleveland
Victor Cousin
William O. Douglas
John Foster Dulles
William J. Durant
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gerald R. Ford
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great