3 December 2020 Gouverneur Morris Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.
3 December 2020 George Washington It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
3 December 2020 William Ellery Channing The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
3 December 2020 Sarah Palin People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can’t fix.
3 December 2020 Robert Half People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can’t live within its income.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
3 December 2020 Jenny McCarthy Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
3 December 2020 Claire McCaskill I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don’t trust government. And they haven’t trusted government for a long time.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright I wasn’t a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn’t written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
3 December 2020 Mitch McConnell Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?
3 December 2020 Gerald R. Ford Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
3 December 2020 James Madison The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
3 December 2020 Isaac Watts Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
3 December 2020 Jesse Jackson We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
3 December 2020 Dalton Trumbo Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There’s no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn’t a gift. It’s a responsibility.
3 December 2020 Theodore Bikel As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
3 December 2020 Marco Rubio Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
3 December 2020 Milton Friedman Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
3 December 2020 Earl Warren Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
3 December 2020 Stephen Harper If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work – because if they don’t, they won’t be around the next time the ballot box is open.
3 December 2020 Malcolm X The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
3 December 2020 Rob McKenna You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.
3 December 2020 Muqtada al Sadr Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.
