Quotes about government

"An educated people can be easily governed."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on government   

"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."

Friedman, Milton on government
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"Governments never learn. Only people learn."

Friedman, Milton on government
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"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government."

Friedman, Milton on government   

"It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on government   

"The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on government   

"It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."

Gardner, John W. on government   

"To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on government   

"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."

Gladstone, William E. on government
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"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on government
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"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."

Goldwater, Barry on government   

"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."

Hamilton, Alexander on government   

"All good government must begin at home."

Haweis, H. R. on government   

"When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive."

Heinlein, Robert on government
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"Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain."

Herbert, A. P. on government   

"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]"

Herodotus on government   

"The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war."

Hospers, John on government   

"The government is best which makes itself unnecessary."

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von on government   

"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few."

Hume, David on government   

"Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to become one of the players."

Igleheart, Austin on government   

"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."

Jackson, Andrew on government   

"As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending."

Jackson, Andrew on government   

"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office"

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"A man without a vote is man without protection."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on government
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"I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual."

Johnson, Samuel on government   

"Safety of the state is the highest law."

Justinian on government   

"It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience."

Kempton, Murray on government   

"The basis of effective government is public confidence."

Kennedy, John F. on government
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"Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves."

Lao-Tzu on government   

"The supply of government exceeds demand."

Lapham, Lewis H. on government   

"To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern."

Lawson, Nigel on government   

"Any cook should be able to run the country."

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich on government   

"Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice."

Lever, Leslie Baron on government   

"You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government."

Limbaugh, Rush on government   

"A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Lincoln, Abraham on government
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"It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."

Lippmann, Walter on government