Quotes about Government
Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
— Bill Gates
Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
— Bill Gates
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
— Thomas Jefferson
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
— Calvin Coolidge
Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.
— Aesop
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
— George Washington
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...
— Ronald Reagan
In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
— Edmund Burke
Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.
— Ayn Rand
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
— Bill Gates
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest of all evils is a weak government
— Benjamin Disraeli