Government Quotes - Quotes about Government

"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."

"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."

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

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

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

"There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."

"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."

"You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature."

"Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship."