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Quotes About Government

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
~ Herbert Hoover
Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one.
~ Thomas Sowell
Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.
~ Angelique Kidjo
If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.
~ Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.
~ Ronald Reagan
Peace is a national issue, not only government's responsibility.
~ Ashraf Ghani
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
~ Tony Blair
People sometimes ask me, because of the blacklisting, "Do you hate the government? Don't you hate white people?" No, it's greed that's the problem.
~ Buffy Sainte-Marie
There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
~ Iris Chang
Bitcoin might revolutionise more than money or economics. It could transform the role and nature of government
~ Leon Louw
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
~ Glenn Greenwald
It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
~ Stewart Udall
If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
~ G. Gordon Liddy
The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.
~ Benjamin Tucker
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.
~ Ludwig Borne
Every decision in government is so important, especially when it comes to the military where thousands of people can lose their lives.
~ Donald Trump
Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.
~ George Will
Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.
~ James Cook
When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.
~ Karl Hess
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter
~ Thomas Jefferson
Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Words don't change children's lives. Real action by the government and equality would.
~ Cindy Blackstock