Governments don't protect people, people protect…

“Ideology follows the money." "Governments don't protect people, people protect governments." "To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for…

— Lawrence Samuels

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to…

— Henry Steele Commager

And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we…

— Robert Anton Wilson

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Governments don't control people like they used to.

— Noam Chomsky

I cannot be any clearer, minority governments don't work.

— Annastacia Palaszczuk

Governments that don't need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people.

— Denise Dresser

Governments don't like harmony.

— Anubhav Sinha

Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing. They just…

— Jimmy Breslin

“governments don't produce economic growth people do.”

— Ronald Reagan

Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb…

— George Carlin

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

— Ronald Reagan

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

— Ronald Reagan

“As I have often said, governments don’t produce economic growth, people do.”

— Ronald Reagan