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Good Government quotes: Best famous quotes about Government

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. – James Madison

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. – Karl Marx

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. – H. L. Mencken

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. – Lewis Mumford

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P. J. O’Rourke

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. – P. J. O’Rourke

Washington is a place where politicians don’t know which way is up and taxes don’t know which way is down. – Robert Orben

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. – Thomas Paine

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. – Thomas Paine

That government is best which governs least. – Thomas Paine

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. – William Penn

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. – Wendell Phillips

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. – Ronald Reagan

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. – Wilhelm Reich

You don’t pay taxes – they take taxes. – Chris Rock

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? – Will Rogers

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. – Will Rogers

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. – Will Rogers

It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting. – Tom Stoppard

Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens. – Edgar A. Suter

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. – Jonathan Swift

If people behaved like governments, you’d call the cops. – Kelvin Throop

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. – Lily Tomlin

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. – Gore Vidal

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. – Woodrow Wilson

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. – Fred Woodworth

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also. – Fred Woodworth

I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it. – Alexander Woollcott

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Good quotes about Government: Some of the best great quotes about Government

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. – Lord Acton

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? – Saint Augustine

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. – Henry Ward Beecher

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. – Otto von Bismarck

Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they’re on drugs. – David Borenstein

Democracy is an abuse of statistics. – Jorge Luis Borges

Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. – Louis D. Brandeis

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. – Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life. – Elmer Davis

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. – Denis Diderot

Majority rule only works if you’re also considering individual rights. Because you can’t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. – Larry Flynt

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. – Benjamin Franklin

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. – Milton Friedman

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. – John Kenneth Galbraith

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. – John W. Gardner

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. – William E. Gladstone

To rule is easy, to govern difficult. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. – Sydney J. Harris

Talk is cheap – except when Congress does it. – Cullen Hightower

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn’t be so bad if the next Congress didn’t keep trying to correct them. – Cullen Hightower

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. – Thomas Jefferson

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. – Thomas Jefferson

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. – Richard Lamm

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. – Abraham Lincoln

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. – James Russell Lowell

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. – James Madison

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. – James Madison

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