Government Quotes And Sayings

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“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” 
– P.J. O’Rourke

“Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.” 
– Polish Proverb

“Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.” 
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” 
– Reinhold Niebuhr

“Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.” 
– Reinhold Niebuhr 

“People come to Washington believing it’s the center of power.  I know I did.  It was only much later that I learned that Washington is a steering wheel that’s not connected to the engine.” 
– Richard Goodwin

“Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.  Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.” 
– Richard Lamm

“I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.” 
– Richard Rumbold

“The cure for capitalism’s failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.” 
– Robert L. Heilbroner

“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush.  It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.” 
– Robert M. Hutchins

“Washington is a place where politicians don’t know which way is up and taxes don’t know which way is down.”
– Robert Orben

“Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.”
– Ronald Reagan

“Governments have a tendency not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.”
– Ronald Reagan

“Democracy is like a raft:  It won’t sink, but you will always have your feet wet.”
– Russell B. Long

“You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River?  Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them.” 
– Russell Chatham

“The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.” 
– Sam Ewing

“The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.”
– Samuel Smiles

“Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.” 
– Scottish Proverb

“I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare — I have no use for him either.”
– Sophocles

“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?” 
– St. Augustine

“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. ”
– Sydney J. Harris

“In a state-run society the government promises you security.  But it’s a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.  The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.” 
– Theodore Forstmann

“It’s every American‘s duty to support his government, but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed.” 
– Thomas Clifford

“Information is the currency of democracy.” 
– Thomas Jefferson

“It is error alone which needs the support of government.  Truth can stand by itself.” 
– Thomas Jefferson

“Prudence … will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.” 
– Tom Stoppard

“Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don’t think.”
– Unknown

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