Government Quotes

82 quotations about Government
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
William E. Gladstone · Government
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe · Government
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Barry Goldwater · Government
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Alexander Hamilton · Government
All good government must begin at home.
H. R. Haweis · Government
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
A. P. Herbert · Government
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt · Government
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
David Hume · Government
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Andrew Jackson · Government
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson · Government
I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
Thomas Jefferson · Government
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Thomas Jefferson · Government
A man without a vote is man without protection.
Lyndon B. Johnson · Government
Safety of the state is the highest law.
Justinian · Government
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Murray Kempton · Government
The basis of effective government if public confidence.
John F. Kennedy · Government
The supply of government exceeds demand.
Lewis H. Lapham · Government
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
Nigel Lawson · Government
Any cook should be able to run the country.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin · Government
You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.
Rush Limbaugh · Government
A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln · Government
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
John Locke · Government
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
Thomas B. Macaulay · Government
Every country has the government it deserves.
Joseph De Maistre · Government
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Lord Melbourne · 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