Government Quotes

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Ronald Reagan

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

George Washington

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Ronald Reagan

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Harry S. Truman

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

Buffalo Bill

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

Chris Christie

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Benjamin Disraeli

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.

Alan Dershowitz

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

James Madison

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Bill Gates

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Harry Browne

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Thomas Jefferson

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Walter Bagehot

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

Grover Cleveland

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

Rush Limbaugh

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

George W. Bush

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

Sandra Day O'Connor

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

Harold Pinter