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Quotes About Government

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
~ John Adams
Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!
~ Thomas Jefferson
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
~ Thomas Jefferson
A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.
~ Frantz Fanon
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.
~ Marquis de Lafayette
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
~ Unknown
Either you will control your government, or government will control you.
~ Ronald Reagan
Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?
~ Voltaire
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
~ Adolf Hitler
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.
~ Warren G. Harding
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
~ James Monroe
It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.
~ Abdul Sattar Edhi
No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.
~ Bashar al-Assad
Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.
~ Emiliano Zapata
The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
~ Simon Bolivar
Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
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.
~ Robert Kennedy
The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.
~ Hammurabi
I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans.
~ Manuel L. Quezon
In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
~ Antonin Scalia
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
~ Milton Friedman
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
~ Ansel Adams
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
~ Rutherford B. Hayes
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.
~ Richard M. Nixon