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Quotes About Government

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
~ Bill Gates
The U.S. is a cosmetic democracy.
~ John Pilger
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
~ Daniel Morgan
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
~ Noah Webster
The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.
~ Jim Rohn
I think the fact that within the bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of the government is actually pretty cool. I am a big fan of bitcoin.
~ Al Gore
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents
~ Dennis Prager
The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.
~ Eric Schmidt
Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.
~ William O. Douglas
Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.
~ Margaret Chase Smith
The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.
~ James Madison
I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.
~ Erin Brockovich
Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships between businessmen and government officials.
~ Ralph Nader
Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.
~ Sean Lennon
It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.
~ Lester R. Brown
It's wrong to criticize government without offering a possible alternative.
~ Jacque Fresco
I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don't know about--and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
~ Barry Goldwater
I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.
~ Edward Heath
All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.
~ Lysander Spooner
The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.
~ Amartya Sen
The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.
~ Peter Schiff
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
~ Thomas More