government quotes

• Whenever you have efficient government, you have a dictatorship. (Harry Truman) [government]
• No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. (Samuel Johnson) [government/power/mankind/willpower]
• The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. (Ronald Reagan) [government/business]
• When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. (Herbert Hoover) [government/morals/people]
• It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. (Herbert Hoover) [business/government/government/business]
• If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. (Herbert Hoover) [right/government/right/start]
• Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. (John Locke) [government/start/property]
• In government, one actress is enough. (Evita Peron) [government]
• History 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 Putin) [government/mankind]
• As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. (Andrew Jackson) [government/people/willpower/property]
• There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. (Andrew Jackson) [government]
• Fear is the foundation of most government. (John Adams) [fear/government]
• Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. (John Adams) [people/government]
• Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. (Frederic Bastiat) [government]
• The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government. (Henry Ward Beecher) [thing//government]
• I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life. (William Blake) [politics/men/government/tyranny]
• The art of government is not to let me grow stale. ( Napoleon I) [art/government]
• Public instruction should be the first object of government. ( Napoleon I) [instruction/government]
• All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. (Edmund Burke) [government/human/benefit/enjoyment]
• Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. (Edmund Burke) [government]
• And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. (Edmund Burke) [government/willpower/evil/government]
• By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. (Albert Camus) [government/conscience/more]
• Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable. (Thomas Carlyle) [men/government/appetite/virtue]
• In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. (Thomas Carlyle) [government/people/wisdom/people]
• Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [democracy/government/government]
• When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. (Winston Churchill) [attack/government/time/housing]
• It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. (Winston Churchill) [democracy/form/government/time]
• Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. (Winston Churchill) [government/willpower/sin/democracy]
• Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people. (Grover Cleveland) [people/support/government/government]
• A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. (Benjamin Disraeli) [government]
• No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate. (Benjamin Disraeli) [government]

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