Government Quotes

The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government. (Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887)

This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time. (Aneurin Bevan, 1897-1960)

And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. (Edmund Burke, 1729-1797)

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. (Milton Friedman, 1912-)

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government, which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality. (Mohandas Gandhi, 1869-1948)

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. (Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826)

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865)

It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office. (Henry L. Mencken, 1880-1956)

If men be good, government cannot be bad. (William Penn, 1644-1718)

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. (Will Rogers, 1879-1935)

There's no trick to bring a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Any government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuance of that habit means the poorhouse. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882-1945)

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. (Harry S. Truman, 1884-1972)

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