~ Government Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And of course sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

Lewis Mumford

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own so both of them together is certain death.

George Carlin

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.

Adlai E. Stevenson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If ever time should come when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

Samuel Adams

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent hardworking honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then we elected them.

Lily Tomlin

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists we don't need to change our lobbies we need to change our representatives.

Will Rogers

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny.

John F. Kennedy

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities treatment centers homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

Dirk Kempthorne

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

Patrick Henry

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Woodrow Wilson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.

Daniel Webster

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems and if only we had no government we'd have no problems. I can tell you that contradicts evidence history and common sense.

Bill Clinton

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

Louis D. Brandeis

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong but better so than not to be exercised at all.

Thomas Jefferson