Government Quotes · Page 301

Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.

— Stockwell Day

For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

— Albert Einstein

If you aren't free to protect yourself - when government puts its thumb on that freedom - then you aren't free at…

— Wayne LaPierre

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

— Jim Hightower

Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted.

— Andreas Antonopoulos

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

— Abraham Lincoln

I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.

— Brigham Young

To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer,…

— F. Sionil Jose

The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to…

— Ilana Mercer

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays…

— Earl Warren

When you have a sitting president who's willing to publicly show his disdain for a company and the leader of a company,…

— Andy Jassy

The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free…

— Alan Barth

Those who advocate more and more government regulation have been experimenting for 40 years, trying to create an economic system in which…

— Ronald Reagan

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd…

— Ronald Reagan

My dad occupied a government position, deputy collector, in a city called Nainital, so we had access to the cinemas at any…

— Naseeruddin Shah

A government regulating itself by what is wise and just for the many, uninfluenced by the local and selfish views of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Since when do we let the government decide what is or isn't good for us? What the hell does Congress know about…

— Michael Badnarik

I love babies. I think they are beautiful in all sorts of different ways. I try to pick up and hold a…

— Michael Scott

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of…

— Karl Marx

If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government…

— Tim Scott

Give the money directly to people who work hard. Instead of taking the money from the business and then filtering it through…

— Mark Helprin

I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the…

— Henry David Thoreau

We first became conscious of the plane publicly on a Monday. I thought then by the weekend it would be done. But…

— Henry A. Kissinger

When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.

— Michel Temer

Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure.

— Thomas Erskine

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones.

— Thomas Jefferson

[Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail…

— Adam Carolla

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

— Ernie Fletcher

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

— Henry David Thoreau

I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security…

— Phil Crane

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

— Ron Paul

The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.

— John Kasich

Businesses should be focused on business, and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

— Terry Gou

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

— Woodrow Wilson

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers…

— Roger Mudd

We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.

— Henry Morgenthau, Jr

Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come…

— Gavin Newsom

Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.

— Vladimir Putin