Good Government quotes: Best famous quotes about Government
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. – James Madison
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. – Karl Marx
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. – H. L. Mencken
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. – Lewis Mumford
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P. J. O’Rourke
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. – P. J. O’Rourke
Washington is a place where politicians don’t know which way is up and taxes don’t know which way is down. – Robert Orben
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. – Thomas Paine
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. – Thomas Paine
That government is best which governs least. – Thomas Paine
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. – William Penn
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. – Wendell Phillips
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. – Ronald Reagan
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. – Wilhelm Reich
You don’t pay taxes – they take taxes. – Chris Rock
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? – Will Rogers
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. – Will Rogers
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. – Will Rogers
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting. – Tom Stoppard
Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens. – Edgar A. Suter
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. – Jonathan Swift
If people behaved like governments, you’d call the cops. – Kelvin Throop
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. – Lily Tomlin
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. – Gore Vidal
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. – Woodrow Wilson
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. – Fred Woodworth
If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also. – Fred Woodworth
I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it. – Alexander Woollcott
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