Quotes on Government and Public Policy!
People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Alan Moore
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
Chester Bowles
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured (and) commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.
Pierre Joseph Prouhon
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
Thomas Paine
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Ronald Reagan
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
Edward R. Murrow
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
Mark Twain