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Quotes About Government

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.
~ Mercy Otis Warren
To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.
~ Richard Henry Lee
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
~ Frederic Bastiat
We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
~ Wendell Berry
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.
~ Frederic Bastiat
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
~ Leon Trotsky
Most of the federal government could be shut down.
~ Milo Yiannopoulos
The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.
~ Frances Perkins
People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back.
~ Yuri Kochiyama
The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
~ Tony Benn
BJP is not going to the people only to form a government. We have come to the people to give stability and a development oriented government.
~ Narendra Modi
No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.
~ Steve Irwin
The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.
~ Pranab Mukherjee
Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.
~ Phil Gramm
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
~ William Henry Harrison
The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
~ George Mason
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
~ Bertolt Brecht
The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.
~ Tommy Douglas
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
~ Tom Robbins
What are we going to do if citizens are disarmed, and the government doesn't obey its own laws?
~ Jeff Cooper