Government Quotes - Quotes about Government

"So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."

"All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter."

"People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments."

"The less government we have the better."

"What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves."

"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself."

"When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned."

"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."