Quotes About Government

The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.

[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his?

I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.

He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.

Science. They were all the science experiments of a maniacal government bent on controlling the universe.

The only thing what happens in the Houses of Parliament is the debate about foxes, badgers and moles

We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.