Quotes about Government
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.
- Benjamin Disraeli
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
- Thomas Jefferson
History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
- George Washington
No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.
- Ronald Reagan
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
- Thomas Jefferson
I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.
- Barack Obama
A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.
- John F. Kennedy
In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes.
- Mike Pence
The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.
- Martin Van Buren
Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
- William McKinley
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
- Herbert Hoover