G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”
Source: The Reagan wit
“Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.”
“Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.”
“Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.”
Source: The Web: An Alex Delaware Novel
“Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.”
“Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.”
“Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have a natural right to defend ourselves against predators. Since we possess that right, we can delegate authority to government to defend us. By contrast, we don't have a natural right to take the property of one person to give to another; therefore, we cannot legitimately delegate such authority to government.”
“Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.”
“Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.”
“Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.”
“Government is never the solution, but it is almost always the problem.
- Quicksilver”
Source: Morning Star
“Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.”
“Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.”
“Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. ... Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. ... The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.”
“Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.”
“Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.”
Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
“Government is not a warfare of interests.”
Source: A Day of Dedication
“Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want.”
“Government is not competent enough to regulate.”
“Government is not devoid of flaws, law is not devoid of flaws, constitution is not devoid of flaws - because the human society that gave rise to all these societal apparatus in an attempt to build a civilized world, was itself in the making. And the fact of the matter is, we still are in the making. We may call ourselves human, but we are yet to become one.”
Source: Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law
“Government is not infallible. Government is only an executive control, a centralized authority for the purpose of expressing the will of the people; before you have a government you must have the people. Without the people there can be no government. The government must be, therefore, an expression of the will of the people.”
Source: Philosophy and opinions: Edited by Amy Jacques-Garvey
“Government is not peaceful; it is inherently coercive.”
“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
“Government is not show business.”
“Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.”
“Government is not the culture, culture lives outside the government.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.”
“Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.”
“Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.”
“Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.”
“Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart.”
Source: Two Novels of Mexico: The Flies. The Bosses
“Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people.”
Source: Diary and Autobiography
“Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“Government is saying to the average citizen every January 1: 'For the next five months you'll be working for us, for goals we shall determine. Is that clear? After May 5 you may look after your own needs and ambitions, but report back to us next January. Now move along.' ... If nearly half of what you make is spent by someone else, that means that half your work time is spent working for someone else. Call me a radical, but I think that comes dangerously close to being a form of indentured servitude.”
“Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.”
“Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.”
“Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.”
“Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.”
“Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.”
Source: Rumour and Reflection: 1941:1944
“Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.”
Source: Instead of a Book
“Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.”
“Government is the enemy until you need a friend.”
“Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.”
Source: The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke in the House of Commons and in Westminster Hall: In Four Volumes
“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”
“Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.”
“Government is the natural enemy of freedom.”
Source: Insatiable Government
“Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.”