Government Quote by Frederic Bastiat

Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.

— Milton Friedman

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

— Edmund Burke

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

Government is of the people,for the people, and by the people.

— Merliah Summers

My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

— Olympia Snowe

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

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

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever…

— Ronald Reagan

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

— William Howard Taft

“Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.”

— Joseph Conrad

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered,…

— Lord Acton

“Government” itself does no harm, because it is a fictional entity. But the belief in “government” – the notion that some people actually have…

— Larken Rose