Government Quote by Jimmy Carter

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

— Edmund Burke

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 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

Government, we are sometimes told, is just another word for things we choose to do together. Like a lot of things politicians say, this…

— Glenn Reynolds

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

— Merliah Summers

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

— Edmund Burke

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

— James Cook

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

— William Howard Taft

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

— Milton Friedman

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

— Gerrit Smith

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…

— Thomas Carlyle

The purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people.

— Bill Clinton