Government Quotes And Sayings

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“A government of laws, and not of men.”
– John Adams

“We ought to consider what is the end of government, before we determine which is the best form. Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all Divines and moral Philosophers will agree that the happiness of the individual is the end of man. From this principle it will follow, that the form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.”
– John Adams

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

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

“Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.” 
– John Perry Barlow

“For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.” 
– Jonathan Swift

“Democracy is an abuse of statistics.” 
– Jorge Luis Borges

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.” 
– Karl Marx

“If people behaved like governments, you’d call the cops.” 
– Kelvin Throop

“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

 ”Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap.  And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.” 
– Lewis Mumford

“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 Brandeis

“The most important political office is that of the private citizen.” 
– Louis Brandeis

“When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.” 
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“All kings is mostly rapscallions.”
– Mark Twain

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” 
– Mark Twain

“Government is merely a servant – merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.”
– Mark Twain

“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
– Mark Twain

“Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic – they are pus.”
– Martin H. Fischer

“Morphine and state relief are the same.  You go dopey, feel better and are worse off.”
– Martin H. Fischer

“The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern.  Every class is unfit to govern.” 
– Mary Gladstone

“Our political institutions work remarkably well.  They are designed to clang against each other.  The noise is democracy at work.” 
– Michael Novak

“The plague of government is senile delinquency.” 
– Mignon McLaughlin

“Young lovers and young nations face the same problem:  after orgasm, what?” 
– Mignon McLaughlin

“There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it”
– Napoleon Hill 

“Do not let the future be held hostage by the past.” 
– Neal A. Maxwell 

“Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.” 
– Nicolas Walter

“Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see farther.” 
– Orison Swett Marden 

“Every government is a parliament of whores.  The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.”
– P.J. O’Rourke

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