Government Quotes
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Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.
Herbert Spencer
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Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.
Thomas Sowell
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Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.
William Weld
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When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.
Arnold Kling
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
Herbert Spencer
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Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.
Merrick Garland
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If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.
Evo Morales
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I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'
Ernie Fletcher
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Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.
William Francis Buckley
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If the condition of Government stands still, it just makes no sense and must die, so, therefore, the improvement within that democracy must be the greater and greater equalization of rights and opportunities to the people as those people grow up.
Sidney Buchman
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I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.
Heather Wilson
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Government is essentially immoral.
Herbert Spencer
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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
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The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.
James Cook
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In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government, Barack Obama has reneged on his promises.
Nat Hentoff
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I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.
Norm Dicks
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I never imagined I'd be working with government, or military or politicians or big companies. None of this stuff I'm doing was on any business plan anywhere ever.
Simon Sinek
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Now that Britain has voted to leave, I think the country deserves to have a leader who believes in Britain outside the European Union and who also has experience at the highest level of government.
Michael Gove
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The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.
Jimmy Carter
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The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.
Eugene V. Debs
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People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.
James Cook
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
William E. Gladstone
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We are deeply pleased that the government has agreed to the smooth implementation of the cease-fire agreement.
Anton Balasingham