Government Quotes

Government Quotes

David Hume

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the ...

Dave Barry

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - to spew out paper.

Ronald Reagan

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

Ronald Reagan

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Thomas Jefferson

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government.

Ronald Reagan

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Henry Louis Mencken

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and ...

Henry David Thoreau

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

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