Government Quotes · Page 57

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

— George Ayittey

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“The gross evil of our time defies all labels.”

— Edward Abbey

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

— Benjamin Tucker

The supply of government exceeds demand.

— Lewis H. Lapham

The highest end of government is the culture of men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[American's government] thinking they are the judge of the world; they're not.

— Bashar al-Assad

I'm not going to do anything that sees a Tory government be likely.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

— Adrian Cronauer

Belarus will become the first government in the world that opens wide opportunities for the use of blockchain technology.

— Alexander Lukashenko

Freedom means the U.S. government not being the main threat to countries around the world.

— Patrisse Cullors

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

— Plato

Prior to the 16th Amendment, which authorized the individual income tax, tariffs had been one of the federal government's chief sources of…

— Scott Bessent

“The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government . . .”

— William S. Burroughs

You see, in government, people give you a mandate, and you've got to fulfil that. Ours is very clear. Fix our public…

— Enda Kenny

I disapproved of the fact that the government here refused to adopt the few reforms that Gorbachev put over in the field…

— Stefan Heym

By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against…

— Thomas Jefferson

We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of…

— Anonymous

If you're a print shop and you are a gay man, should you be forced to print 'God Hates Fags' for the…

— Rick Santorum

The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence -…

— Ayn Rand

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to…

— George Haven Putnam

Public employee unions, in their defense, say politicians have unfairly made them into simplistic bogeymen, responsible for problems that have myriad causes.…

— Charles Duhigg

The whole climate change debate gives - and there are all kinds of quotes from adherents of and promoters of climate change…

— Ron Johnson

No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out…

— Tony Abbott

Two thirds of federal disaster aid is weather related,and though we cannot prevent bad weather, we are getting better at predicting it.…

— William M. Daley

Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that…

— Anonymous

At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which the police…

— Paul Frolich

Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from…

— George Washington

My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns…

— David Byrne

In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S.…

— Edward Said

Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against…

— Thomas Paine

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

— Jennifer Pahlka

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

— James Cook

I think we're on too many government watch lists. We'd better let this one go.

— Grant Imahara

In fact, the media should not be run by the government at all.

— Arvind Kejriwal

I will restore a government based on principle and justice.

— Moon Jae-in

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

— Doris Lessing

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

The government takes the opposition day debates incredibly seriously.

— Andrea Leadsom