Government Quotes

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

The Japanese government has accepted the notion that Japan is the loser, and it appears to be going to accept unconditional surrender. Such a position frustrates the officers and soldiers of the imperial armed forces.

The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.

In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government.

'Freedom' means a lot to conservatives, but they have such a narrow sense of what it means. They think a lot about freedom from - freedom from government, freedom from regulation - and precious little about freedom to. Freedom to is absolutely something that has to be safeguarded by good government, just as it could be impaired by bad government.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech.

We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man.