Famous Quotes About government

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Government does not solve problems it subsidizes them.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.