A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Barry GoldwaterA pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
James MadisonHe's given a lifetime of service to the party. Without his contribution - among others - we wouldn't have had three terms of government.
I know he has been damaged by events in his personal life - those are, in my view, private matters and should remain so.
He should be judged by his contribution. [on John 'Two Jags' Prescott]
Des BrowneBush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.
Dennis Kucinich The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
George WashingtonAll government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund BurkeHistory, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Thomas JeffersonLiberty 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 WilsonWhile 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 AdamsThe happiness of society is the end of government.
John AdamsIt is not by consolidation, or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good government is effected.
Thomas JeffersonDemocracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement AttleeWhen you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Harry S TrumanIt is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
VoltaireI 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 WatsonProtecting national security is the Government's top priority.
Tony McNultyI should not have made those comments on the case following your statement outlining the position of the government. [on judges being soft]
Vera BairdThe best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheEvery government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
I F StoneGood ideas are the backbone of good government.
Brian SchweitzerA little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
P J O'RourkeGovernments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Georg W HegelThat some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due
Charles InglisAll share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it
James Russell LowellGovernment is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force... Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
George WashingtonThe first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
Simon BolivarAnd it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the federal government or federalism has no business in this kind of business.
Gary AckermanI was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
Harold McMillanGovernment is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyI wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Dame Edith SitwellA politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
Harry S TrumanThe Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
William O DouglasThe fact that John Prescott is being paid large sums of money to do little or nothing adds to the general malaise surrounding this government and the feeling that ministers are incapable of tackling serious issues.
Vince CableThe 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 CalhounFrankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
Joseph HellerGood government is good politics.
Richard J DaleyHistory teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald ReaganI believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Henry L MenckenSir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
William Henry HarrisonThe most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald ReaganI think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. (31 August 1959)
Dwight EisenhowerBy our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
Samuel ChaseNo Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Benjamin DisraeliA wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labour and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas JeffersonThe lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people
Grover ClevelandGovernment is essentially immoral.
Herbert SpencerWe have 500000 reservists in America who would rise in arms against your government
Arthur ZimmermannI am concerned about a society that has demonstrably lost confidence in its institutions, in the government, in the press, in the church, in the military - as well as in business.
George CabotI 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 GrahamNo one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams
Jesse Jackson
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