Government Quotes

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

H. L. Mencken

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

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.

Austin Igleheart

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

George Washington

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Will Rogers

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.

Colin Powell

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

Fred Woodworth

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Gore Vidal

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

Henry David Thoreau

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Otto von Bismarck

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

Benjamin Carson

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

Bill Owens

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

Robert Anton Wilson

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb

When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

Iain Duncan Smith

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Thomas Paine