Government Quote by Giambattista Vico

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

— Giambattista Vico

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

— Frank Herbert

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

— Seneca the Younger

By nature, every individual has the right to govern himself; and governments, whether founded on majorities or minorities, must derive their right from the…

— John C. Calhoun

A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent…

— Calvin Coolidge

Government is not a human institution. It is a divine institution that humans are to run on His behalf. When they create their own…

— Tony Evans

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

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

— Thomas Paine

Governments unaccountable to law are tyrannies, whatever they might call themselves, no matter how exceptional and indispensable they declare themselves to be.

— Paul Craig Roberts

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

— Benjamin Disraeli

To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted to those…

— Henry George