Government - Quotes and Proverbs

A necessary evil. Here are some proverbs and quotes about government and authorities.

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All disaster movies start with the government ignoring a scientist.

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Big Brother is watching you.

George Orwell

Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.

Plato

Democracy is a government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

Albert Camus

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

George Bernard Shaw

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Leo Tolstoy

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

Charles de Gaulle

How should we govern ourselves?

(unknown author)
Philosophical question

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H.L. Mencken

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

Woody Allen

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Thomas Jefferson

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Ansel Adams

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Ronald Reagan

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Seneca the Younger

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Milton Friedman

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Ronald Reagan

The only people who should be allowed to govern countries with nuclear weapons are mothers, those who are still breast-feeding their babies.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Stokely Carmichael

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