Quotes about Government
We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
— Wendell Berry
Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.
— Rick Warren
The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.
— Rick Warren
For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.
— Ronald Reagan
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.
— Ronald Reagan
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
— Ronald Reagan
I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality
— Mahatma Gandhi
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.
— Abraham Lincoln
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
— George Washington
I hope we can continue to find ways to encourage integrity in all aspects of government operations
— Ben Carson
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
— Woodrow Wilson