Top Government Quotes
The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.
Neal Boortz
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
Peter Benenson
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
Martin Van Buren
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Andrew Jackson
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Albert Einstein All Government Quotes
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan 
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What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.
Harold Washington
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau
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We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.
Jung Chang
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke
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If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Joseph Stalin
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
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