Famous Quotes
- The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
- George Bernard Shaw on Government
- The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
- Voltaire on Government
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
- Ibrahim Babangida on Government
- The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
- Woodrow Wilson on Government
- The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
- Nigel Farage on Government
- The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
- George Washington on Government
- The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.
- Paul Ryan on Government
- The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
- Sam Houston on Government
- The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill on Government
- The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
- William F. Buckley, Jr. on Government
- The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
- James Monroe on Government
- The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
- Voltaire on Government
- The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Government
- The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
- Noah Webster on Government
- The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.
- Milton Friedman on Government
- The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.
- Jon Meacham on Government
- The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.
- Conan O'Brien on Government
- The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson on Government
- The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
- James A. Garfield on Government
- The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
- Dalai Lama on Government
- The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.
- Lucy Powell on Government
- The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.
- Mike Pence on Government
- The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
- William O. Douglas on Government
- The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
- Tom Clancy on Government
- The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
- Jim Hightower on Government
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
- Lord Acton on Government
- The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
- Franklin Pierce on Government
- The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.
- Andrew Cuomo on Government
- The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Government
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
- Mary Astell on Government
- The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
- George Deukmejian on Government
- The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
- James Madison on Government
- The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
- Andrew Jackson on Government
- The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
- John Adams on Government
- The essence of good government is trust.
- Kathleen Sebelius on Government
- The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- James Madison on Government
- The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.
- Andrew Cuomo on Government
- The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on Government
- The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.
- Jon Meacham on Government
- The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
- Wilhelm Reich on Government
- The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
- Andy Rooney on Government
- The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.
- Mitch Daniels on Government
- The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.
- Donald Rumsfeld on Government
- The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
- John Ruskin on Government
- The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
- David Mamet on Government
- The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
- William J. Brennan, Jr. on Government
- The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
- Arlen Specter on Government
- The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.
- Rush Limbaugh on Government
- 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 on Government
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