940 private quotes tagged government

“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.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.” — Ansel Adams

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“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.” — George Washington

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“Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.” — Ronald Reagan

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“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“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.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.” — Harry S. Truman

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“One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.” — Lee Iacocca

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“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.” — Will Rogers

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“A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” — James Madison

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“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.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” — Mark Twain

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“To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.” — Thomas Paine

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“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.” — Will Rogers

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“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill

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“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.” — Confucius

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“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.” — Mark Twain

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“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.” — Aristotle

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“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.” — Plato

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