Quotes about Government
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
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
- Calvin Coolidge
As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.
- John Adams
Purity of morals is the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.
- George Washington
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
- Samuel Johnson