Government Quotes

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

Haven't you noticed that every time the government f-ks up McDonald's has a new sandwich?

It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.

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

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.

It is not that the people want a BJP government or Modi as PM. The Nation wants to teach a lesson to those who have ruined the nation.

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.

An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.