Quotes about Government

“A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.”

“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”

“Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries.”

“I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.”

“There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.”

“People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.”

“It was a Conservative government that in 2016 introduced the national living wage, giving Britain's lowest-paid workers the biggest pay rise in 20 years.”

“The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.”

“If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in England, then that policy would almost certainly be changed... We have asserted that we are political prisoners, and everything about out country - our arrests, interrogations, trials, and prison conditions - show that we are politically motivated.”

“When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.”

“The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.”

“I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.”

“The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.”

“Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.”

“The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.”

“When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.”

“Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.”

“The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.”

“It has been the case for some time that I have made myself dizzy thinking about the fact that the implementation of the Three-fold Program of the government, above all in the area of food and clothing, has been experiencing difficulties.”

“Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.”

“We have the best government that money can buy.”