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.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
All good government must begin at home.
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
A man without a vote is man without protection.
Safety of the state is the highest law.
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
The basis of effective government if public confidence.
The supply of government exceeds demand.
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
Any cook should be able to run the country.
You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.
A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
Every country has the government it deserves.
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
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