Top government Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of government quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Lysander Spooner
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.
- Lysander Spooner
Collection: Government
Image of James Madison
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
- James Madison
Collection: Government
Image of Sebastian Pinera
We've got to move beyond the idea that the public and private sectors are at odds. Government has to lay the groundwork for private equity to productively invest in things like education. It's a partnership, not a battle.
- Sebastian Pinera
Collection: Government
Image of Franklin D. Roosevelt
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Collection: Government
Image of Nicole Malliotakis
With divisive curriculum such as Critical Race Theory being taught in schools, and parents who are expressing concerns about curriculum and policy being treated as domestic terrorists by government agencies, it's critically important to protect parents' rights to transparency regarding their child's education.
- Nicole Malliotakis
Collection: Government
Image of David Malpass
To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.
- David Malpass
Collection: Government
Image of John Tyler
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
- John Tyler
Collection: Government
Image of Penn Jillette
People still seem to think that they should vote themselves money. They seem to think there is stuff which they think is the government's job, when it's really the individual's job.
- Penn Jillette
Collection: Government
Image of 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.
- George Will
Collection: Government
Image of Kenneth C. Griffin
The idea that the largest banks in the world would simultaneously fail, need government support, government guarantees, and/or government intervention to survive was not in my range of realistic scenarios.
- Kenneth C. Griffin
Collection: Government
Image of John Tyler
Our form of government can no longer be considered an experiment in politics. Crowned with success, it stands forth an example to the world and exhibits the proudest triumph of reason and philosophy.
- John Tyler
Collection: Government
Image of Louis D. Brandeis
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Collection: Government
Image of Glenn Greenwald
It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.
- Glenn Greenwald
Collection: Government
Image of Marianne Williamson
We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.
- Marianne Williamson
Collection: Government
Image of James Madison
War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
- James Madison
Collection: Government
Image of Willie Nelson
I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.
- Willie Nelson
Collection: Government
Image of Jack Ma
Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
- Jack Ma
Collection: Government
Image of Ali Bongo Ondimba
Building a 'Green Gabon' has always been a central pillar of my government, and in 2014, I introduced a new legal framework that puts environmental protection and sustainable development firmly at the heart of our future economic growth.
- Ali Bongo Ondimba
Collection: Government
Image of James Madison
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
- James Madison
Collection: Government
Image of Pierre Beaumarchais
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
- Pierre Beaumarchais
Collection: Government
Image of Samantha Power
What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
- Samantha Power
Collection: Government
Image of Benjamin Harrison
This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.
- Benjamin Harrison
Collection: Government
Image of Pierre Poilievre
I stated that aboriginals deserve protection under Canada's human rights laws and that the record dollars that the government is spending on aboriginals should reach the people in need.
- Pierre Poilievre
Collection: Government
Image of Jack Canfield
I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
- Jack Canfield
Collection: Government
Image of Ismail Haniyeh
Every Palestinian family feels the effects of the international embargo. But the more the pressure on the government grows, the more support we receive, both from the Palestinian street and from the Arab and Islamic world.
- Ismail Haniyeh
Collection: Government
Image of Heather Cox Richardson
Since 1981, when President Ronald Reagan took office promising to scale back the federal government, Republican leaders have promised to cut regulation and taxes, and to return power to individuals to arrange their lives as they see fit. But they have never entirely managed to eradicate the New Deal government.
- Heather Cox Richardson
Collection: Government
Image of George W. Romney
I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.
- George W. Romney
Collection: Government
Image of Corazon Aquino
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
- Corazon Aquino
Collection: Government
Image of Neal Boortz
The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.
- Neal Boortz
Collection: Government
Image of John Stossel
People like getting what they think is free stuff from government.
- John Stossel
Collection: Government
Image of Omar al-Bashir
In any war, mistakes happen on the ground; this is not the policy of the government. We are a government that functions according to laws.
- Omar al-Bashir
Collection: Government
Image of Steve King
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.
- Steve King
Collection: Government
Image of Dave Rubin
Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.
- Dave Rubin
Collection: Government
Image of John Marshall
During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been banished by a terror which the government itself has reprobated, & to permit in case of arrestation, an investigation of the fact of emigration as well as of the identity of the person accus'd.
- John Marshall
Collection: Government
Image of Andrew Scheer
We've seen the government give out subsidies to companies, those companies turn around and use it for executive bonuses.
- Andrew Scheer
Collection: Government
Image of Polly Toynbee
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
- Polly Toynbee
Collection: Government
Image of Richard M. Nixon
Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.
- Richard M. Nixon
Collection: Government
Image of Ehud Olmert
As mayor of Jerusalem, I wanted the government to invest the necessary funds in order to unite the city in an effective manner with full rights for the Palestinians living in Jerusalem, so the world would say, 'Okay, it can work.'
- Ehud Olmert
Collection: Government
Image of Peter Lynch
Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
- Peter Lynch
Collection: Government
Image of Carl Bernstein
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
- Carl Bernstein
Collection: Government
Image of Tsai Ing-wen
I would have a democratic process for people to get together and talk about the way they want the government to conduct business with China.
- Tsai Ing-wen
Collection: Government
Image of Jeff Bezos
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.
- Jeff Bezos
Collection: Government
Image of Paul Keating
You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.
- Paul Keating
Collection: Government
Image of Dambisa Moyo
A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
- Dambisa Moyo
Collection: Government
Image of Franklin D. Roosevelt
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Collection: Government
Image of John Tyler
A republican government can only be supported by virtue; and the end of all our legislation should be to encourage our fellow citizens in its daily practice.
- John Tyler
Collection: Government
Image of Zachary Quinto
We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
- Zachary Quinto
Collection: Government
Image of Gerry Adams
For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
- Gerry Adams
Collection: Government
Image of Paul Harvey
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
- Paul Harvey
Collection: Government
Image of Woodrow Wilson
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
- Woodrow Wilson
Collection: Government