Government Quote by Edmund Burke Download Open image “Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.” — Edmund Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Government Human wisdom Humans Inspirational Nature of man Politics Want Wisdom
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new… — Jeff Baxter Copy Share Image
Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government. — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
