Famous Quotations About Government

Here are some famous quotations about government. We have quotes made by Eleanor Roosevelt, P. J. O'Rourke plus others.

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A government is the only know vessel that leaks from the top.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

A little Government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them.

Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Don't care, don't have to, we're the government.

Every stable government in history has depended on the resignation of the poor to being poor.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

I don't make jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Influence is not government.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

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