Quotes About Government

The state was made for man, not man for state.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live.

The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

Government is a gang of thieves writ large.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.