Government Quote by Theodore Roosevelt Download Open image “The object of government is the welfare of the people.” — Theodore Roosevelt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Government Inspirational Objects People Politics Welfare
The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Government is like fire. If it is kept within bounds and under the control of the people, it contributes to the welfare of all.… — Harold Stassen Copy Share Image
The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
Government is not a person; it is hardly even a collective of people. Government is a system, and it can be a good system,… — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state. — William Scranton Copy Share Image
What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government. — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
