- Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.
- Stafford Cripps on Government
- Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.
- Tony Campolo on Government
- Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Government
- Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
- John Jay Chapman on Government
- Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
- Ayn Rand on Government
- Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
- Dirk Kempthorne on Government
- Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
- Iain Duncan Smith on Government
- Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
- George W. Bush on Government
- Government does not have a revenue problem government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.
- Marsha Blackburn on Government
- Government does not solve problems it subsidizes them.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
- John Locke on Government
- Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
- Norman Cousins on Government
- Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
- Jimmy Carter on Government
- Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
- Henry Clay on Government
- Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
- Leo Tolstoy on Government
- Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley on Government
- Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
- Fred Woodworth on Government
- Government is dysfunctional.
- Michael Bloomberg on Government
- Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
- John Updike on Government
- Government is essentially immoral.
- Herbert Spencer on Government
- Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
- Harry Browne on Government
- Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
- Charley Reese on Government
- Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
- Michael Badnarik on Government
- Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
- George Washington on Government
- Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.
- Mitt Romney on Government
- Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
- Frederic Bastiat on Government
- Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.
- Thomas Frank on Government
- Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.
- Leland Stanford on Government
- Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
- Abraham Lincoln on Government
- Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Government
- Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.
- Michael Bloomberg on Government
- Government stimulates the democrat party.
- Rush Limbaugh on Government
- Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.
- Matthew Lesko on Government
- Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
- Jesse Ventura on Government
- Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger on Government
- Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.
- Jesse Ventura on Government
- Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Reagan on Government
- Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.
- Thomas Paine on Government
- Governments never learn. Only people learn.
- Milton Friedman on Government
- Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
- Alan Dershowitz on Government
- Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.
- Luke Scott on Government
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