Quotes about Government
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
- Frederick Douglass
I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.
- George W. Bush
The greatest source of America's generosity is not our government; it's the good heart of the American people.
- George W. Bush
The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'
- George Clooney
Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
- George Washington
It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.
- Giles Fraser
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
- Aristotle
It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
- George Washington
[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.
- John Adams
I am asking all Americans, Republicans, Independents and Democrats, to join us in our campaign to defeat the corrupt establishment and give our government back to the people. It's going to happen.
- Donald Trump
In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.
- Eleanor Roosevelt