Government Quotes

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

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

The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

If people in America would get their finances together and start taking care of each other, we could put the government out of business.

Most of the federal government could be shut down.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

We have the best government that money can buy.

The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the Constitution of India.

BJP is not going to the people only to form a government. We have come to the people to give stability and a development oriented government.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.

We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.