Quotes About Government

The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it.

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

The absolute necessity to create a proper Earth government' - we should inscribe this as the priority item on the agenda of world affairs.

The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

I don't know of any government leaders that are killers.

Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.

The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.

A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent.

Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?

The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development

Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.

Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities.

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.