government Quotes

“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”

― Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address

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

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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“It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected, but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward

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“The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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“Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons, and no government can stand which is not founded upon justice.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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“The trouble with the theory is that government is not a machine, but a living thing.”

― Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

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