Government Quotes

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that’s what I’m doing.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.