300 Quotes on Government

• We cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can thrive even in a down economy.

  Author: Mortimer Zuckerman

• When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.

  Author: Don Young

• We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.

  Author: Don Young

• It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks.

  Author: John Yoo

• It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.

  Author: Lalu Yadav

• The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

  Author: Lalu Yadav

• Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

  Author: Xenophon

• Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

  Author: Steve Wynn

• I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy.

  Author: Albert Wynn

• Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.

  Author: Ron Wyden

• This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people'

  Author: John Wycliffe

• The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

  Author: Jeremiah Wright

• A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

  Author: Frank Wright

• Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

  Author: Frank Wright

• If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

  Author: Fred Woodworth

• Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

  Author: Fred Woodworth

• A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• Women have no government.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

  Author: George Woodcock

• Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.

  Author: Girma Woldegiorgis

• The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

  Author: James Wolcott

• In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

  Author: John Wise

• Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.

  Author: Bob Wise

• If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.

  Author: Kenneth Wilson

• Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

  Author: Kenneth Wilson

• I have long felt that it is readers and viewers of conservative media who could benefit from a more balanced discussion of what is at stake in our policy and the actions of our government.

  Author: Joe Wilson

• One must always keep one's government under control.

  Author: Joe Wilson

• When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.

  Author: Joe Wilson

• The government serves the people - not vice-versa.

  Author: Joe Wilson

• A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

  Author: James Wilson

• But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

  Author: James Wilson

• It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing.

  Author: Juan Williams

• My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

  Author: John Williams

• World War II was the last government program that really worked.

  Author: George Will

• If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

  Author: George Will

• Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

  Author: Ellen Wilkinson

• It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.

  Author: Byron White

• The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.

  Author: William Wharton

• I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.

  Author: William Wharton

• Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.

  Author: Christiaan Wet

• I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do.

  Author: Allen West

• The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

  Author: Ida Wells

• For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

  Author: Bob Wells

• It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.

  Author: Gideon Welles

• In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

  Author: William Weld

• Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

  Author: William Weld

• I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

  Author: William Weld

• Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

  Author: William Weld

• Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

  Author: William Weld

• It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

  Author: William Weld

• My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

  Author: William Weld

• Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

  Author: William Weld

• Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

  Author: William Weld

• It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

  Author: William Weld

• The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

  Author: William Weld

• So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

  Author: William Weld

• Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.

  Author: William Weld

• One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

  Author: William Weld

• Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.

  Author: William Weld

• In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances.

  Author: Robert Welch

• We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

  Author: Robert Welch

• The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

  Author: Robert Welch

• We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.

  Author: Robert Welch

• Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.

  Author: James Welch

• But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents.

  Author: Adam Weishaupt

• No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

  Author: Noah Webster

• In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

  Author: Noah Webster

• The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

  Author: Noah Webster

• The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

  Author: Daniel Webster

• You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.

  Author: Gary Webb

• My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

  Author: George Weah

• Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

  Author: Isaac Watts

• It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.

  Author: Diane Watson

• The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.

  Author: Diane Watson

• What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

  Author: Harold Washington

• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  Author: Harold Washington

• Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

  Author: George Washington

• It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

  Author: George Washington

• Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

  Author: George Washington

• The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

  Author: George Washington

• The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

  Author: George Washington

• Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

  Author: George Washington

• Public influence is the real government of the world.

  Author: Josiah Warren

• Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

  Author: Earl Warren

• It is critical that Democratic candidates, whether they are in New Jersey, or Virginia, or anywhere, emphasize the fact that we can be trusted, and can bring fiscal integrity to our state, local, and national government.

  Author: Mark Warner

• As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden.

  Author: John Warner

• Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• I can't think of a time that the U.S. government asked us or instructed us not to report or air something.

  Author: Jim Walton

• Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.

  Author: James Walsh

• You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

  Author: Voltaire

• The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

  Author: Voltaire

• The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

  Author: Voltaire

• Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.

  Author: David Vitter

• The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.

  Author: Thomas Vilsack

• There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

  Author: William Vickrey

• The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

  Author: William Vickrey

• The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.

  Author: William Vickrey

• Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.

  Author: Charles Vest

• The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

  Author: Charles Vest

• I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.

  Author: Charles Vest

• There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.

  Author: Charles Vest

• This mass destructive weapons were sold to Iraqi government by the United States. And Mr. Rumsfeld has been one of the man responsible for this sale, for this bargain, for this market.

  Author: Jacques Verges

• The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

  Author: Jacques Verges

• I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control.

  Author: Stuart Varney

• Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

  Author: Eamon Valera

• Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

  Author: John Updike

• I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

  Author: John Updike

• The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

  Author: Walter Ulbricht

• When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.

  Author: Walter Ulbricht

• It's not, 'We have a city to bid, now let's go check in with the federal government'.

  Author: Peter Ueberroth

• Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

  Author: Tom Udall

• Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

  Author: Mark Twain

• We have the best government that money can buy.

  Author: Mark Twain

• The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

  Author: Charles Tupper

• Aggression is simply another name for government.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

  Author: Barbara Tuchman

• Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

  Author: Donald Trump

• When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

  Author: Harry Truman

• 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.

  Author: Harry Truman

• A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

  Author: Harry Truman

• A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

  Author: Harry Truman

• I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

  Author: Pierre Trudeau

• I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

  Author: Anthony Trollope

• The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.

  Author: Jeanne Tripplehorn

• My government career is over.

  Author: Linda Tripp

• I had a 20-year, stellar government career.

  Author: Linda Tripp

• The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

• In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is world government.

  Author: Jan Tinbergen

• Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

  Author: Strom Thurmond

• The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• That government is best which governs least.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise.

  Author: Craig Thomas

• I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run.

  Author: Clarence Thomas

• And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

  Author: Clarence Thomas

• People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

  Author: Cal Thomas

• Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

  Author: Cal Thomas

• Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

  Author: Cal Thomas

• I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

  Author: Bob Thaves

• If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

  Author: Randall Terry

• The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.

  Author: Randall Terry

• Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• Here was this vast machinery of government and they didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle.

  Author: Maxwell Taylor

• Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

  Author: Charles Talleyrand

• A government is for the benefit of all the people.

  Author: William Taft

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

  Author: William Taft

• Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

  Author: Robert Taft

• Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.

  Author: Stuart Symington

• I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is basic.

  Author: Arthur Sylvester

• It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

  Author: Wanda Sykes

• Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.

  Author: Wanda Sykes

• For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

  Author: Helen Suzman

• No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.

  Author: Donald Sutherland

• Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.

  Author: Donald Sutherland

• But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.

  Author: Lawrence Summers

• You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

  Author: Larry Summers

• It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

  Author: Jock Sturges

• The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters.

  Author: Kurt Student

• Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.

  Author: Billy Strayhorn

• When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

  Author: Lytton Strachey

• In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.

  Author: John Strachan

• The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.

  Author: John Strachan

• A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.

  Author: Joseph Story

• A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

  Author: Joseph Story

• It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

  Author: Joseph Story

• Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

  Author: I. Stone

• There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

  Author: Ezra Stiles

• But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

  Author: Ezra Stiles

• Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

  Author: Mark Steyn

• The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.

  Author: Mark Steyn

• The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

  Author: John Stevens

• You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

  Author: Ralph Steadman

• Everything government touches turns to crap.

  Author: Ringo Starr

• Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

  Author: Ken Starr

• Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

  Author: Pete Stark

• The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

  Author: Henry Stanley

• Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• 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.

  Author: Josiah Stamp

• The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

  Author: Dick Spring

• The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush.

  Author: John Spratt

• But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

  Author: Lysander Spooner

• If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.

  Author: Lysander Spooner

• That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

  Author: Lysander Spooner

• I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

  Author: Eliot Spitzer

• If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.

  Author: Steven Spielberg

• Government is essentially immoral.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• 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.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

  Author: Gerry Spence

• The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

  Author: Arlen Specter

• And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

  Author: Wole Soyinka

• It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

  Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

  Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

  Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

  Author: Joseph Sobran

• War is just one more big government program.

  Author: Joseph Sobran

• Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

  Author: Joseph Sobran

• When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

  Author: Martin Smith

• In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest.

  Author: Martha Smith

• The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.

  Author: L. Smith

• We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

  Author: L. Smith

• Government is waging war against the people.

  Author: L. Smith

• I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

  Author: L. Smith

• I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

  Author: L. Smith

• Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

  Author: Goldwin Smith

• I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

• I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

• The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

  Author: Cyrus Smith

• The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.

  Author: Allan Sloan

• The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

  Author: Edith Sitwell

• Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

  Author: Manmohan Singh

• We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

  Author: Manmohan Singh

• Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

  Author: Manmohan Singh

• History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.

  Author: William Simon

• Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.

  Author: Algernon Sidney

• Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.

  Author: Bill Shuster

• We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

  Author: Clare Short

• The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.

  Author: Thaksin Shinawatra

• 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.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

  Author: Alan Shepard

• Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

  Author: Percy Shelley

• I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

  Author: Cindy Sheehan

• Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

  Author: George Shaw

• A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

  Author: George Shaw

• Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

  Author: Anna Shaw

• The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

  Author: Al Sharpton

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