Quotes about Government
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
Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.
— Ayn Rand
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
— Bill Gates
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest of all evils is a weak government
— Benjamin Disraeli
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
— Edmund Burke
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
— Margaret Mead