Government Quotes

What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!

- Adolf Hitler

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

- Mark Twain

What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.

- Bernie Sanders

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

- Benjamin Franklin

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

- Ronald Reagan

It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.

- Bernie Sanders

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

- Winston Churchill

The struggle hasn't ended. It's only just begun in our view. In the sense that if all goes well during the elections and we emerge as the government there will still be another form of struggle. But there's going to be lots of work in reconstruction, resettling people. In the initial period we will expect all the support groups we have here in Britain and elsewhere to concentrate their efforts in enabling us to resettle our people.

- Robert Mugabe

We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.

- Unknown

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

- Plato

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

- Alexander Hamilton

If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.

- Nelson Mandela

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

- Ibn Khaldun

If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.

- Emiliano Zapata

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

- Thomas Jefferson

The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.

- Idi Amin

Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

- James Connolly

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%... No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process.

- Bernie Sanders

Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.

- David Duke

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

- Alexander Hamilton

The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.

- Milo Yiannopoulos

Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal will be about socializing...uh, um...Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.

- Maxine Waters

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

- Thomas Jefferson

We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone.

- Crazy Horse

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

- Benjamin Franklin

People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.

- Alex Jones

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

- Stokely Carmichael

The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.

- Alexander Hamilton

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

- Ronald Reagan

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

- Aristotle

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

- John F. Kennedy

It is legal because I wish it.

- Louis XIV

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

- Harry S. Truman

We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.

- Francisco Franco

Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. ... Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. ... The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

- Ronald Reagan

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

- Plato

My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.

- Idi Amin

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

- Edward R. Murrow

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

- Unknown

A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

- Thomas Jefferson

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

- Voltaire

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

- Thomas Sowell

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

- Adolf Hitler

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

- Ronald Reagan

No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states. It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .

- Kwame Nkrumah

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

- Noam Chomsky

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

- James Monroe

Haven't you noticed that every time the government f-ks up McDonald's has a new sandwich?

- Bill Burr