Government Quotes

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.