Government Quotes · Page 78

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

— Thomas Jefferson

The era of resisting big government is never over.

— Paul Gigot

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now,

— Andrew Cuomo

As a rule, the Government appoints its friends.

— Hector-Louis Langevin

No act of government can save the world.

— Peter Brook

“A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.”

— Amit Kalantri

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

— Will Rogers

What if the government built this thing? I doubt it. Why? Cause it works.

— Anonymous

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

— Jaron Lanier

We need a lifetime ban on government officials lobbying for a foreign government.

— Donald Trump

The American dream is under attack because our government has been hijacked by the Liberals in Washington DC.

— Herman Cain

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an…

— Xenophon

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

— Jim Doyle

At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and…

— Mary Bono

No one in Britain wants Fracking. But the government is, against the will of the people, trying to force it upon us…

— Bez

The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up.

— Edward Britton

I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go…

— Michele Bachmann

We have built a government so large and so expensive here in Washington that not even the richest economy in the history…

— Marco Rubio

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit, who is going to…

— George Washington

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all…

— Mitt Romney

The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon…

— Edmund Burke

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his…

— Thomas Paine

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with…

— Lee Child

There is an apocalyptic view to this that is actually kind of appealing, which is the only way to kill big government…

— Greg Gutfeld

I am proud of the decision of this Administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein. I am proud of the liberation of 25 million…

— Condoleezza Rice

Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words:…

— Ronald Reagan

The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the…

— Marie Corelli

I began to firmly change my mind when I saw how young Egyptians used Facebook, for example, to begin to coalesce their…

— Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the…

— Milton Friedman

There's a long history in the Middle East of "bread intifadas," starting with 1977 in Egypt, when Anwar Sadat tried to lift…

— Annia Ciezadlo

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

— Wendell Phillips

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

— Barry Goldwater

Almost any system of government will work if the people will.

— Anonymous

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

— Jerry Brown

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

— Millicent Fenwick

We should have a very limited federal government.

— Paul Broun

War is like government, a matter of tact.

— Napoleon Bonaparte