Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark TwainGovernments don’t control people like they used to.
Noam ChomskyI believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
Franklin D. RooseveltPeople do not make wars; governments do.
Ronald ReaganKings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund BurkeBut do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.
Barack ObamaI found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
Barack ObamaLiberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund BurkeI have been very happy in the House of Representatives.
George H. W. BushPolitics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald ReaganI 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).
Abraham LincolnWe are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.
Carl SaganThe Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
Fidel CastroConquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
Thomas JeffersonThe effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.
Noam ChomskyThe Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Dalai LamaThere are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.
Nelson MandelaThe economy’s always been the engine for our national security.
Jim MattisPresident Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.
Colin PowellAnger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.
Terry PratchettIt’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.
Will RogersIf you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.
Will RogersThe inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
Alexander HamiltonWhen governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
Brian EnoThe government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Theodore RooseveltNothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert EinsteinWe are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerInjustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
H. L. MenckenWith the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.
Richard P. FeynmanPolitical necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
George Bernard ShawMost members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.
Ray BradburyDon’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham LincolnIn 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.
Abraham LincolnLaw and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.
Jimmy CarterThose who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
Hosea BallouTaxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
Terry PratchettWe must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Richard M. NixonLife in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
Thomas SowellThis country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will RogersIf an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.
Henry David ThoreauHe who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
PlatoOur country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas JeffersonWhat is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
James MadisonWe here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham LincolnMy government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
Narendra ModiIt is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George OrwellWhat we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.
Joyce MeyerTo restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerAnyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas AdamsGovernments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
Bill GatesOur future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
Joe BidenPhilanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
Bill GatesGovernments are supposed to lie to their citizens.
Noam ChomskyUnder a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David ThoreauCorruption is just another form of tyranny.
Joe BidenThe Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.
Noam ChomskyConstitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Alexander HamiltonSometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas JeffersonI would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Samuel Johnson