Quotes About Government

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

Monsters are entirely mythological, sir, like spirits, werebeasts, and competent bureaucrats.

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy,

Free government works well in proportion as government is superfluous.

The wheel of democracy turns slowly.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

it is easier to induce national governments to discriminate against foreign producers than to defend the interests of domestic consumers

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence. It is force, and like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.