Government Quotes · Page 47

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

— Benjamin Franklin

Spreading your words you spread yourself, you immortalize yourself.

— Anonymous

I don't have much faith... in the government police.

— Roger Ver

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

— John F. Kennedy

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

— Ronald Reagan

We are in desperate need of a return to limited, constitutional government.

— Wendy Long

It is easier for a republican form of government to be applauded than realized.

— Publius Cornelius Tacitus

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.

— Milton Friedman

When a government official says a problem has been "contained," pay no attention.

— Seth Klarman

Israel's system of proportional representation rarely produces stable government.

— Dominic Raab

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the…

— Robert Purvis

The one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period [is] contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.

— Ronald Reagan

The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.

— George Washington

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development

— Andrew Cuomo

I was a convicted felon. No one wanted to give me a job, I couldn't get any government assistance, and I couldn't…

— Angela Stanton-King

You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to…

— George Soros

Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships…

— Ralph Nader

“From this state also will he flee. If I should attempt to enumerate them one by one, I should not find a…

— Seneca

The national government was itself the creature of the States...Yet today it is often made to appear that the creature, Frankenstein-like, is…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think there's going to be a tug of war in this country over who are the real patriots because at a…

— Van Jones

You will not be able to meet the Millennium Development goals in health without e-health, in education without e-education, and government services…

— Hamadoun Toure

Our rights are not granted by governments. They are inherent to our nature. But it's entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges…

— Edward Snowden

We obviously don't want to cause problems for the Afghan government, President Hamid Karzai and the Afghan people. In fact, we want…

— David Petraeus

Just like a house is worth whatever a bank's going to lend against it, an education is worth whatever the bank is…

— Michael Hudson

It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword…

— Maximilien Robespierre

The vicious cycle of violence is real. But if people simply stopped listening to their ignorant parents, their biased religions, their corrupt…

— Gary Yourofsky

Stalin was experimenting with telepathy in the 1930's. Winston Churchill had a paranormal office, trying to get people to travel out of…

— Peter James

I think that things were getting really very bad a couple of years ago, and there's been a very significant change in…

— Mohsin Hamid

Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that…

— John Burroughs

I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or…

— Mario

The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to…

— Jimmy Carter

If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of…

— Thomas Paine

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

— Jimmy John Liautaud

Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Superior race is spiritual nobility, not color of skin.

— Ilkin Santak

I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.

— Ronald Reagan

The end of government is the happiness of the people.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

— Abraham Lincoln

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

— Molly Ivins

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

— John F. Kennedy