Quotes about Government
It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.
- Frank Peretti
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
- Grover Cleveland
Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.
- Roger Williams
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
- James A. Garfield
The admitted right of a government to prevent the influx of elements hostile to its internal peace and security may not be questioned, even where there is not treaty stipulation on the subject.
- Grover Cleveland
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
- Ronald Reagan
There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Man is by nature a political animal.
- Aristotle
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
- Will Rogers
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
- Thomas Jefferson
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
- Ronald Reagan
I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
- Dan Quayle