1,009 Quotes Regarding Government


In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine

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

Governments never learn. Only people learn.
Milton Friedman

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
John Kenneth Galbraith

It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard

The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.
Andrew Jackson

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Larry Flynt

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
Chris Rock

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
Cal Thomas

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
John W. Gardner

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
William Penn

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
Robert Orben

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

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Alexander Woollcott

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
William E. Gladstone

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
Larry Ellison

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
Wilhelm Reich

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
Cullen Hightower