Government Quotes · Page 236

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

— Samuel Johnson

Vote for me because I have a clear vision and have experience working at the top of Government.

— Suella Braverman

When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.

— John Basil Barnhill

I'm not at liberty to discuss the governments knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on…

— Richard M. Nixon

The government could fix everything that's wrong with the country if they'd simply read my Facebook updates.

— Anonymous

We need a broad government which will make decisions, but not a national unity government, because we are divided from within.

— Reuven Rivlin

Public unions are the country's foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government.

— Jonah Goldberg

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

— Eliot Spitzer

We Americans like to believe we live in a free country with the right to use the justice system to ensure that…

— Sharyl Attkisson

Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will…

— Anonymous

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation,…

— Ray Bradbury

We have a government that boasts about free education. Those of us who have scratched below the surface know it is costing…

— Johann Lamont

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I…

— Michael Newdow

It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile…

— Stephen Harper

Mr. Trump doesn't radiate many of the qualities I respect. But what do I know? I've never met Trump. I know he's…

— Pico Iyer

Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should…

— Milton Friedman

To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general…

— Melville Fuller

You have to almost apologize for saying, please enforce the laws. The laws, that they're [government] receiving good federal dollars to be…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

It was very shocking for me to read newspapers that openly criticised the government in South Korea. That is impossible in North…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment…

— Joseph Sobran

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't for the government. Character matters;…

— Rush Limbaugh

Ronald Reagan [ cite the founders] on behalf of emphasizing the faith of our founders, of limited government, of the uniqueness and…

— Paul Kengor

We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the…

— Chris Hedges

“If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yourself too much…

— David Graeber

A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.

— Thomas Jefferson

A person with noble soul will never cease ignoring the provocation. The nobility of his soul is the only answer to these…

— Ilkin Santak

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...

— William J. Clinton

If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification…

— William J. Clinton

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

— Mia Love

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

— Anonymous

European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.

— Thomas P. Campbell

The future of my government is not in the hands of the opposition. The steering wheel is in my hands.

— Uddhav Thackeray

The heavy hand of government and its rules are causing family businesses to shutter their doors.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Civil servants and government functionaries do not write memoirs because they hope to get more government jobs or assignments.

— Sanjaya Baru

Moreover, Hispanics' sympathy for big government represents a cultural predilection as well as an economic one.

— Heather Mac Donald

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

— Larry Elder

Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.

— Noam Chomsky

“Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?”

— Simon S. Tam

The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.

— Michele Bachmann

It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.

— Eleanor Roosevelt