Government Quotes

• These people in the North-east of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more from anything else, from the whole of their past history, would prefer, I believe, to accept the government of a foreign country rather than submit to be governed by honourable gentlemen below the gangway i.e. the Irish Nationalist Party.

  

  Bonar Law
  • History
  • I Believe
  • Prejudices

• People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like me. But I have my own deadline for how long I should be in Washington. I think you can get accustomed to red tape and many unfair things that go on in government. Once you stop getting angry about inefficiencies, waste, and injustice, you ought to get out. That's my time limit.

  

  Elizabeth Holtzman
  • People
  • President
  • Angry

• Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free? more just it is, doubtless, if it come to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, their liberty, than that a greater number, for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be their fellow-slaves. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it.

  

  John Milton
  • Government
  • End
  • Voice

• A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.

  

  Joseph Story
  • Government
  • Anarchy
  • Changeable

• It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

  

  Todd Akin
  • Ideas
  • Chance
  • Should

• The government is worst which governs most.

  

  James Cook
  • Government
  • Worst
  • Governs

• Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do the same thing, we'd call it theft. When government does it, we euphemistically call it income redistribution, but that's exactly what thieves do - redistribute income. Income redistribution not only betrays the founders' vision, it's a sin in the eyes of God.

  

  Walter E. Williams
  • Persons
  • Liberty
  • Economic

• We have pledged to be the greenest government ever. We must lead by example...We are not asking others to do things we will not do ourselves.

  

  Charles Hendry
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Example

• Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

  

  Steve Allen
  • Government
  • Balances
  • Mafia

• How will it end?... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all humanity; a universal knowledge which will make all mankind kin.

  

  Carl H. Claudy
  • Humanity
  • Vision
  • Mankind

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

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Government
  • Religions
  • Tragic

• To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.

  

  George Soros
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Solution

• Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Power Of Peace

• My projects have typically taken a long time to complete. Buildings might take on average about five to seven years to finish, but in my case it's been longer, because the projects I have accepted within the past 15 years have been mostly government projects, and those involve some politics and funding issues, and approvals and so forth. So they're slower.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Time
  • Long
  • Past

• The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • People
  • Action
  • Differences

• I talked by phone with Fox to let him know the government is absolutely ready to collaborate with him.

  

  Ernesto Zedillo
  • Government
  • Phone
  • Collaborate

• That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all too common philosophy that the government should protect and support one from the cradle to the grave. The policy of the Founding Fathers has made our people and our nation strong. The opposite leads inevitably to moral decay.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Philosophy
  • Protect
  • Grave

• We need to consider that only a small amount of the public vote for the mayor of a city. It's because they are disgusted and don't trust the government.

  

  Angela Alioto
  • Government
  • Trust
  • Vote

• The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

  

  Michael Mandelbaum
  • Government
  • Reason
  • States

• Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse.

  

  James Cook
  • Government
  • State
  • Powerhouse

• We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Perfect
  • Government
  • Imperfect

• He does everything a Marshal does but twice as hard, twice as dirty, and without the soft and cushioning arms of the government to wipe his tears.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Hard
  • Dirty
  • Marshal

• The government is promoting bad behavior.

  

  Rick Santelli
  • Government
  • Behavior
  • Promote

• I was involved with sports and student government, the regular stuff. I liked movies and all, but I did love the singing and putting on musicals, and I was always comfortable with that. I liked it.

  

  Ken Howard
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Comfortable

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