I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
Gerrit Smith | Government
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
John Jay Chapman | Good government
It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
Michel de Montaigne – Government
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Government – Edmund Burke
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Jimmy Carter – Government is a contrivance of human wisdom
A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.
Jimmy Carter – art of governing
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire – Government
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Voltaire – Art of Government
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire – Government
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau – Government, Prison
People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.
Oscar Wilde – Government
The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw – Government
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
John Updike – Government, Politics
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
John Updike – Government
Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.
