“Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.”
Quotes about government
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“For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.”
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.”
“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.”
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.”
“If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.”
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”
“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.”
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
“An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.”
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”
“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”
“He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.”
“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
“Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.”
“Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”
“The government is us we are the government, you and I.”