Government Quotes

• We are under government's control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • People
  • Realizing
  • Paranoid

• The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • People
  • Power
  • Government

• Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved. When atheists become the majority in this country, I don't think the theists are going to be glad to have "one nation under no God" inserted in the Pledge of Allegiance.

  

  Michael Newdow
  • Country
  • Positive
  • Majority

• Let America symbolize humanity's struggle to conquer nature and master technology. The time has now come for our Government to facilitate the individual's control over his or her future - and of the future of America.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • America
  • Future
  • Technology

• No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Religious
  • Obligation
  • Affair

• People felt like they were friends with Google, and they believed in the "Do No Evil" thing that Google said. They trusted Google more than they trusted the government, and I never understood that.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • People
  • Evil
  • Said

• The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they will throw their newly gained strength in the desired direction. In the present structure of society, this practice is inevitable. Whatever of social importance is done today, whether in politics, finance, manufacture, agriculture, charity, education, or other fields, must be done with the help of propaganda. Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Society
  • Direction
  • Discovered

• With the change of government this matter was not further pursued and the tax deductible limit has remained at $6,000.

  

  Edward Seaga
  • Change
  • Government
  • Tax

• The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means.

  

  Paul Gillmor
  • Government
  • Means
  • Lived

• To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

  

  David Nasaw
  • Children
  • Libertarian
  • Entrusting

• What a man thinks is no concern of the government.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Concern

• The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

  

  Mia Love
  • Government
  • Democrat
  • Central

• Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

  

  Georges Danton
  • Men
  • Government
  • Poor

• Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be no great armaments.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • Government
  • Defence
  • Armament

• Unlike the public and business is prepared, government cannot do this alone.

  

  Craig Fugate
  • Alone
  • To Do
  • Cannot

• Since the government creates no wealth, it can only transfer the wealth required to hire people. Even if the government creates a million jobs, that is not a net increase in jobs, when the money that pays for those jobs is taken from the private sector, which loses that much ability to create private jobs.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Jobs
  • Ability

• We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • Believe
  • Government
  • Private

• The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

  

  Josiah Stamp
  • Government
  • Statistics
  • Diagrams

• In my roles as Deputy State Treasurer and Special Assistant Attorney General, I strove to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and proactive.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Government
  • Roles
  • Responsive

• Historically, it's very unusual after a change of government for the new government not to be returned.

  

  George Brandis
  • Change
  • Government
  • Returned

• Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Government
  • Solution
  • Patriotic

• Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.

  

  Ernie Fletcher
  • Jobs
  • Choose
  • Completion

• Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

  

  James Cook
  • History
  • Government
  • Crisis

• Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

  

  Nicolas Walter
  • Trust
  • Look
  • Anarchist

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