Quotes about Government
Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!
— Thomas Jefferson
We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
— Wendell Berry
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
— Alexander Hamilton
I'm going to fight for every person in America who believes government should serve the people, not the donors and not the special interests.
— Donald Trump
Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
— Henry David Thoreau
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
— James Madison
Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.
— James Madison
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
— Adrian Rogers
I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.
— Grover Norquist
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
— Thomas Jefferson
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
— Franklin Pierce