Government Quotes
82 quotations about Government
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
It is easy to rule over the good.
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Office without pay makes thieves.
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
That government is best which governs least.
The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
We have the best government that money can buy.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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