Every Government Quotes

46 Every Government quotes by 33 unique authors

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. — Thomas Carlyle
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind… — Alexander Hamilton
It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that… — Thomas Paine
It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves;… — George Bernard Shaw
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these… — Thomas Jefferson
The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends;… — George W. Bush
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. — Thomas Jefferson
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious,… — Alexander Hamilton
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. — James Madison
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open,… — Thomas Jefferson
It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt. — Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an… — Bertrand Russell
There's a smokestack on the back of every government program. — Milton Friedman
The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to… — H. L. Mencken
Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. — Wendell Phillips
Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going… — Tom Coburn
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. — Baron de Montesquieu
Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the… — Samuel Johnson
What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares… — Thomas Jefferson
Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected… — William O. Douglas
How very popular to say, 'spend more on this, expend more on that.' And of course, we all have our favorite causes; I know I… — Margaret Thatcher
Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists - and every government that supports them. — George W. Bush
If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent… — Mark Strand
Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward… — Michael Enzi
I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective… — Ed Balls

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