I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place - where I will always strive to be - and that is on people's side
Gordon BrownLiberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow WilsonNo government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole FranceEvery country has the government it deserves.
Joseph De MaistreNo free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles
Patrick HenryIf men were angels, no government would be necessary.
James MadisonDisbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom RobbinsThe process of renewal and reinvigoration that your premiership has inspired is without precedent. In each of our constituencies remarkable achievements have resulted directly from the policies of Labour governments since 1997
Mark TamiI really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Vaclav HavelMy objective is to restore a sense of purpose and unity, particularly with the local government elections ahead
Sir Menzies CampbellThe government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
George WashingtonI believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free
Abraham LincolnHistory proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
Vladimir PutinA government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn RandReckless with our government;
reckless with his own future, position and place in history. [on Tony Blair]
Clare ShortA government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard ShawRelying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
John Perry BarlowWe have 500000 reservists in America who would rise in arms against your government
Arthur ZimmermannWe are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
William E GladstoneI have been more constructively critical of this Government than my predecessors.
Digby JonesWhile all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago
John AdamsA government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson AlcottBe thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will RogersDullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
Walter BagehotIf the government spends money in the regions of the UK it is called subsidy. But if it pours it down the gullet of the cities and counties in south-east England it is called essential support of the infrastructure.
John ForsythThis is a great honour for Germany.
I think he will be a worthy successor to Pope John Paul II. I congratulate him on behalf of the government and all Germans. [on the election of Pope Benedict XVI]
Gerhard SchroederI share the view of the overwhelming majority of the party and the country that the only way the party and the government can renew itself in office is urgently to renew its leadership. [resignation letter to Tony Blair]
Tom WatsonUniversity printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.
Francis CornfordA government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Barry GoldwaterThe only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn RandThe Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James MadisonFrom such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
Thomas PaineThe Govenment has tried everything to solve the problem of the coal industry - semi-starvation, imprisonment, extortion, threats, the supplication of the miner's leaders, and what is the almost omnipotence of Churchill's oratory. All have failed. There is one thing they have not tried. They haven't tried getting rid of the coal owners. For the one truth the Government has not yet learned is .... you can get coal without the coal owners, but you can't get coal without miners.
Aneurin BevanWe must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom
Steve ForbesThe trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.
Robert NozickWe intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward to independence, democracy and equality.
Alex SalmondThe very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
John CalhounParts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.
Marty MeehanGovernment is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.
Woodrow WilsonNo power of government ought to be employed in the endeavour to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Jeremy BenthamBosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments.
Charles EdisonI believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
Katherine GrahamThe whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Cavalry, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.
Abbott E KittredgeWhat's so frustrating about this is that we are on the verge of seeing the beginnings of a democratic and permanent government [on Iraq]
Jack StrawManufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
Ludwig MisesOur flag is a thing of beauty and inspiration if you look at it with the right perspective. The flag is beautiful... it's not the fault of the flag some of the people making decisions for our country are not. The government makes very poor decisions... OFTEN... but don't blame the flag. Try to remember what raising it at Iwo Jima meant to the surviving 27 men who lived to see it raised on Mount Suribachi. How many flag burners would burn that flag?
John A MarshallFor in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan SwiftIt's inadequate in terms of its scope, it's inadequate in terms of its information technology, leadership, management systems and processes [on his governments immigration department]
John ReidI should not have made those comments on the case following your statement outlining the position of the government. [on judges being soft]
Vera BairdThe motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
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