Government Quotes

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Joseph Stalin

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.

Noam Chomsky

This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.

Paul Ryan

Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.

Lucy Powell

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

James Madison

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

Will Rogers

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

Jesse Jackson

I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.

William Hague

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Ronald Reagan

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

James Madison

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

Alan Keyes

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.

Thomas Jefferson

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Oliver Cromwell

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Thomas Jefferson

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Henry David Thoreau

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Thomas Jefferson

Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.

Ron Wyden