Government Quotes - Page 11

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

  Mark Twain

  Loyalty, Country, Peace

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Thinking

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.379

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• Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.

  Strobe Talbott

  World Government, Order, Nwo

  "America Abroad" by Strobe Talbott, content.time.com. June 24, 2001.

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• I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Transcendentalism, Anarchist, Motto

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1

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• The less [government] the better.

  Drew Carey

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Steven Kurtz, reason.com. November 1997.

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• Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.

  David Rockefeller

  World Government, Order, Evil Government

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• Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

  Unknown

  Liberty, Libertarian, Mob Rule

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• Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Running, Liberty

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.92, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government - a bureaucratic elite.

  William E. Jenner

  Mean, Nwo, World Government

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• We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

  John Adams

  Religious, Revenge, Passion

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229

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• Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

  Phil Gramm

  People, Growth, Economic

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• You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspirational, Light, Liberty

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• The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

  Mark Twain

  Order, Political, Politics

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

  Barry Goldwater

  Mean, Littles, Size

  Barry Goldwater (2010). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.18, Bottom of the Hill

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

  Richard M. Nixon

  Fun, Men, Political

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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

  Voltaire

  Tyrants, Politics, Occasional

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• 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. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.

  James Madison

  Lying, Angel, Men

  Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2017). “The Origin of the Nation: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights and Other Amendments, Federalist Papers & Common Sense: Creating America - Landmark Documents that Shaped a New Nation”, p.308, Madison & Adams Press

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• There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

  Bertrand Russell

  Knowledge And Power, Majority, Adequate

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• Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Carpe Diem, Ice, Omission

  1936 Renomination acceptance speech, Philadelphia, 27 Jun.

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• Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, Rights, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Fear, Real, Grateful

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• The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

  Plato

  Wise, Plato, Men

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• A government is the most dangerous threat to man

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Monopoly, Bill Of Rights

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.94, Penguin

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• Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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