Government Quotes

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

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