Quotes on Government

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.

I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.

The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

Governments don't control people like they used to.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.