Government Quotes

• The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Democracy
  • Spirit
  • Aristocracy

• In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Way
  • Influence
  • Pressure

• What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Fear
  • Law
  • Rest

• When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Money
  • Government
  • Leaders

• That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

  

  Mitch Kapor
  • Purposes
  • Required
  • Receives

• When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'

  

  Michael Hayden
  • Director
  • Paper
  • Observe

• There is no British Government anymore in Ireland. It is gone. It is no longer the enemy. We have now a native government, constitutionally elected, and it is the duty of every Irish man and woman to obey it. Anyone who fails to obey is an enemy of the people and must expect to be treated as such. We have to learn that attitudes and actions which were justifiable when directed against alien administration, holding its position by force, are wholly unjustifiable against a native government which exists only to carry out the people's will, and can be changed the moment it ceases to do so. We have to learn that freedom imposes responsibilities.

  

  Michael Collins
  • Freedom
  • Position
  • Obey

• People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. Ive never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular.

  

  Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Innocent
  • Including
  • Sanctions

• The Declaration of Independence was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Secure
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Modern Society

• Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is at once overturned by its madmen and scoundrels and lapses into barbarism.

  

  William Batchelder Greene
  • Existence
  • Madmen
  • Barbarism

• If the Russian government continues to pump money into it and makes their national teams train in Sochi and just sort of prop it up as a point of pride, then perhaps. But I don't think anybody living there was begging for multiple 40,000-seat venues to be plopped down in the city.

  

  Gary Hustwit
  • Thinking
  • Pride
  • Russian

• A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Government
  • Illness
  • Lungs

• Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Military
  • Weak
  • Prevails

• I am pleased to inform you of the decision of the Government of the Republic of Iraq to allow the return of the United Nations weapons inspectors to Iraq without conditions.

  

  Naji Sabri
  • Government
  • Decision
  • Iraq

• Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters that followed. Political rhetoric, echoed in the media, seeks to obscure that painfully plain fact.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Facts
  • Disaster
  • Obscure

• This spirit of Party, unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.

  

  George Washington
  • Different
  • Enemy
  • Worst

• Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.

  

  Michael Gove
  • People
  • Money
  • Jobs

• My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent people might die as a result. Thus, I personally oppose capital punishment.

  

  Ed Crane
  • Result
  • Punishment
  • Innocent People

• Unless wealth was chastened by culture or regulated by government, it was at worst predatory, at best boring.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Culture
  • Wealth
  • Predatory

• Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

  

  James Cook
  • Government
  • Underestimate
  • Incompetence

• We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes, defend our rights, and provide for certain common needs ... A state on the other hand, is a coercive organization asserting or enjoying a monopoly over the use of physical force in some geographic area and exercising power over its subjects.

  

  David Boaz
  • Exercise
  • Liberty
  • Common

• The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Government
  • Duty
  • Terms

• In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Government
  • Justice
  • Force

• It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law
  • Government
  • Democracies Have

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