Government Quotes

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

That government is best which governs least.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

We have the best government that money can buy.

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

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

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

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.