Government Quotes

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.

What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we dont make government responsive to the people, we dont make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.

Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain.

There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.

We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together , not only our government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them right away.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.

Many people consider the things which government does for them as social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

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