Action Quote by Bertrand Russell

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with…

— Bill Gates

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.

— Nick Clegg

Any government cannot work or function if it does not enjoy popular support.

— Amit Shah

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

You cannot have a government for and by the people if it is not represented by all of the people.

— Ayanna Pressley

A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.

— Charles Colson

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.

— Jonah Goldberg

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire…

— Paul von Hindenburg

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

— William A. Dembski

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

— John Adams

Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.

— Edward Abbey

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

— John Updike