Quotes about Government
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
— James Madison
I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.
— Ronald Reagan
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
— George W. Bush
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
— Thomas Paine
Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.
— Alexander Hamilton
We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.
— Ronald Reagan
The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.
— Thomas Jefferson
The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.
— John Lennon
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.
— James Madison
If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.
— Ronald Reagan
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
— Thomas Jefferson