Government Quotes

I didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me.

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.