Top Government Quotes

The only legitimate purpose of government is to protect the lives and property of its citizens.

No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Government Definition

(n.) The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.

(n.) The mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law.

(n.) The right or power of governing; authority.

(n.) The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration.

(n.) The body politic governed by one authority; a state; as, the governments of Europe.

(n.) Management of the limbs or body.

(n.) The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case.

If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign...

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments o...

The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public w...

If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government!

If freedom isn't free and people's rights are being violated and suppressed, then Governments have NO need to exist.

People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclina...

With modern technology it is the easiest of tasks for a media, guided by a narrow group of political manipulators, to speak constantly of democracy and freedom while urging regime changes everywhere o...

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the governm...

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.