Authority Quote by Katharina Zell

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

— Paul Valery

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

— Albert Camus

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief…

— Clarence Thomas

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

— Leo Tolstoy

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

— Ronald Reagan

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

— William Penn

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

— John Updike

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

— George Washington

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.

— Jonathan Mayhew

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment…

— George Washington

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

— Benjamin Disraeli