~ Government Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

George Washington

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Sydney J. Harris

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

John W. Gardner

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When we got into office the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.

John F. Kennedy

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Thomas Jefferson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Themistocles said 'The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you my wife govern me; your son governs you.'

Plutarch

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

Ronald Reagan

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

Robert Half

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.

Abraham Lincoln

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Fred Allen

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The liberties of a people never were nor ever will be secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Patrick Henry

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives by that much we move toward making the State our Master.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to nor have cause to do it harm.

Nicolo Machiavelli