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Quotes About Government

Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.
~ Vayalar Ravi
I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.
~ Christopher Gadsden
We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.
~ Sharron Angle
Conservative Republicans are back. We're in the fight for fiscal discipline and limited government, and we are on the side of the American people.
~ Mike Pence
But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.
~ Birch Bayh
Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.
~ Gustave de Molinari
The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.
~ James Madison
Government is waging war against the people.
~ L. Neil Smith
The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.
~ Tommy Douglas
Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!
~ Spiro T. Agnew
I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.
~ Tony Blair
The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.
~ Mark Levin
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
~ James Madison
I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.
~ Ronald Reagan
I know other astronauts share my feelings.... And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.
~ Gordon Cooper
I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.
~ Bruce Willis
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
~ George W. Bush
The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.
~ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.
~ John Quincy Adams
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
~ Thomas Paine
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
~ Jim Hightower
Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.
~ Damon Keith
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
~ Émile Zola
I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.
~ Oliver Cromwell