Government Quotes
Quotes about Government
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- “If you have the right to influence the laws that are made in your community, why not take the opportunity to do somethin...” — Victoria Stoklasa
- “It's every American's duty to support his government but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed.” — Thomas C. Mann
- “When there’s a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there’s public input, the people usually win.” — Morgan Carroll
- “Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper and make it worthless by applying ink.” — Ludwig Van Moses
- “A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.” — Jim Leach
- “Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.” — Wang Jianlin
- “In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.” — Pierre Elliott Trudeau
- “Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient.” — Louis Brandeis
- “The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.” — Richard Nixon
- “It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.” — Eric Robert Morse
- “A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.” — Ferdinand Mount
- “The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.” — Charles Bass
- “I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.” — Harold Wilson
- “China has no income tax no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.” — Chou En-lai
- “People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.” — Martin O'malley
- “Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.” — Alex Stein
- “Government is there to do only what the private sector won’t, can’t, or shouldn’t do.” — Phil Valentine
- “Really, what is the law when it stands in the way of what the government wants to do?” — Juliana Barbassa
- “The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.” — Hubert Humphrey
- “But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.” — Roy Moore
- “Bureaucracy: A contentious rumble toward the establishment of authoritarian rule.” — Albert Thomas Bifarelli
- “The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.” — John S. Caldwell
- “Created by wars that required it, the machine now created the wars it required.” — Joseph Alois Schumpeter
- “One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.” — Rosamond Lehmann
- “When the truth reaches the mass, it becomes impossible to govern by deception.” — Mike Ducheine
- “The entire civil service is like a fortress made of papers forms and red tape.” — Alexander Ostrovsky
- “No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.” — Thomas E. Dewey
- “If you start to smell some of the shit, you start smelling all of the shit” — Doug Stanhope
- “The weak have one weapon - the errors of those who think they are strong.” — Georges Bidault
- “The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.” — Marcel Masse
- “Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)” — Lao-tsze
- “The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.” — John Stossel No They Can T