Quotes about Government
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
Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.
— Ronald Reagan
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
— Jesse Jackson
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
— Ronald Reagan