Quotes about Government
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.
— Albert Schweitzer
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
— James Madison
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
— John Updike
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
— William Howard Taft
Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
— Bill Gates
Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
— Bill Gates
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
— Thomas Jefferson
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
— Calvin Coolidge
Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.
— Aesop
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
— George Washington
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...
— Ronald Reagan
In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
— Edmund Burke