Government Quotations

Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man...

Barry Goldwater

A government that is big enough to give you...

Benjamin Franklin

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom...

Denis Diderot

Man will never be free until the last king...

Elmer Davis

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all...

Democracy is the art and science of running the...

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who...

What is government itself but the greatest of all...

Democracy gives every man the right to be his...

The worst thing in this business is to be...

To rule is easy, to govern...

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment...

John W. Gardner

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect...

Jorge Luis Borges

Democracy is an abuse of...

Karl Marx

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to...

Larry Flynt

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual...

Lewis Mumford

The way people in democracies think of the government...

Lord Acton

The danger is not that a particular class is...

Milton Friedman

The government solution to a problem is usually as...

Otto von Bismarck

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to...

P. J. O'Rourke

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble...

P. J. O'Rourke

Giving money and power to government is like giving...

Richard Lamm

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what...

Robert Orben

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which...

Saint Augustine

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but...

Sydney J. Harris

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking...

Thomas Jefferson

It is error alone which needs the support of...

Thomas Jefferson

That government is best which governs the least, because...

Thomas Paine

Government, even in its best state, is but a...

Thomas Paine

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to...

William E. Gladstone

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good...

Winston Churchill

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will...

Winston Churchill

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation...

Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but...