Government Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
The Athenians govern the Greek; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
Themistocles (c. 528-c.462 BC) Athenian statesman
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato (428-347 BC) Greek philosopher
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, author
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 (b. 1911) American president
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine,” to the contented a “machine for securing property.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish author
Government has no other end than the preservation of property.
John Locke (1632-1704) English philosopher
The hatred Americans have for their own government is i pathological … at one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.
Gore Vidal (b. 1925) American novelist
The business of Government is to see that no other organization is as strong as itself.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) American president
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
William E. Borah (1865-1940) American politician
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, lawridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded by beings who have neither title, knowledge nor virtue.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) French social theorist
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling goverment, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) English historian
We mustn’t be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
Broadbent, John Bull’s Other Island George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, craw
The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher, author
At the very heart of British government there is a luxuriant and voluntary exclusion of talent.
Brian. Chapman (b. 1923) British academic
It is the duty of Her Majesty’s Government neither to flap nor to falter.
Harold Macmillan, Lord Stockton (1894-1986) British Conservative politician, prime minister
The authorities were at their wit’s end, nor had it taken them long to get there.
Desmond MacCarthy (1877-1952) British critic
Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.
Leslie (Baron) Lever (1905-1977) British solicitor, Labour politician
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
William Beveridge (1879-1963) British economist
For forms of government let fools contest, Whate’er is best administered is best.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
George Washington (1732-1799) American president
Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, Philosopher
