Quotes about Government
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.
- Michael Novak
Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America.
- Barack Obama
While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.
- George Washington
Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.
- Alexander Hamilton
Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
- Harry S. Truman
God is in charge, and alone sits as the ultimate government over His creation. All other governments are then to reflect His ultimate rule.
- Tony Evans
The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.
- Thomas Jefferson
The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.
- James Madison
History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.
- Ronald Reagan
Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.
- Ludwig Borne
The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.
- Charles Finney