Constitution Quote by John Dickinson

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their…

— Wendell Phillips

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 which can be felt; a government of energy. God send that our country may never have a government, which it can feel.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“By making the government a combination of elected officials and citizen-backed initiatives and referenda, there can truly be a government of the people, by…

— Victoria Stoklasa

A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.

— Judy LaMarsh

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple…

— Thomas Paine

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

— George Santayana

We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the…

— Ronald Reagan

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

— William Penn

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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