Government Quotes

Government’s first duty is to protect the people,

not run their lives.

The best minds are not in government.

If any were,

business would hire them away.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey

and car keys to teenage boys.

In a democracy,

the people get the government they deserve.

The government solution to a problem is

usually as bad as the problem.

I will fight for transparency in government.

Government is instituted for the protection,

security,

and happiness of the people.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man

who is able to think things out for himself.

The basis of our political system is the right of

the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

The government is us;

we are the government,

you and I.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned

an invisible government owing no allegiance

and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time,

and your government when it deserves it.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and

the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government,

who assist in bearing its burdens.

Consequently,

I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage,

who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of,

I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so

that every poor man may have a home.

That our government should have been maintained in its original

form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at.

It had many props to support it through that period,

which now are decayed and crumbled away.

Through that period,

it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now,

it is understood to be a successful one.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently,

half slave and half free.

We find ourselves under the government of

a system of political institutions,

conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty,

than any of which the history of former times tells us.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs,

there is no need of bloodshed and war.

There is no necessity for it.

I am not in favor of such a course,

and I may say in advance,

there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government.

The government will not use force unless force is used against it.