- A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Thomas Jefferson on Government
- A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
- Friedrich August Von Hayek on Government
- A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Government
- A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
- Larry Ellison on Government
- A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
- Alexis De Tocqueville on Government
- A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright on Government
- A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.
- Thomas Francis Meagher on Government
- A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
- Gerald R. Ford on Government
- A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
- Grover Cleveland on Government
- A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
- Barbara Jordan on Government
- A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
- James Reston on Government
- 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 on Government
- A government of laws, and not of men.
- John Adams on Government
- A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw on Government
- A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
- Amos Bronson Alcott on Government
- A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
- Woodrow Wilson on Government
- A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
- Edward Abbey on Government
- A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.
- Jonathan Sacks on Government
- A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
- Harry S. Truman on Government
- 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 on Government
- A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
- Harry S. Truman on Government
- A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.
- Al Gore on Government
- A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
- James Madison on Government
- A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
- Bob Woodward on Government
- A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
- Spiro T. Agnew on Government
- A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
- Thomas Jefferson on Government
- A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
- George Grenville on Government
- A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.
- Simon Mainwaring on Government
- Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
- William Godwin on Government
- Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
- Isaac Watts on Government
- Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.
- Paul Ryan on Government
- After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.
- Tony Campolo on Government
- Aggression is simply another name for government.
- Benjamin Tucker on Government
- All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.
- Steven Hatfill on Government
- All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
- Edmund Burke on Government
- All government, of course, is against liberty.
- H. L. Mencken on Government
- All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
- Jesse Ventura on Government
- All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
- James F. Cooper on Government
- All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
- William Henry Harrison on Government
- All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
- Iain Duncan Smith on Government
- All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
- Adam Carolla on Government
- Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
- Dennis Prager on Government
- Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.
- Lucy Powell on Government
- America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
- Rick Perry on Government
- America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.
- Rick Perry on Government
- Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.
- Tim Robbins on Government
- Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
- Mortimer Zuckerman on Government
- Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
- Marco Rubio on Government
- Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.
- Gouverneur Morris on Government
- Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather, they look to their portfolios.
- Bill Owens on Government
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