Quotes about government
575 quotes from 235 people
- ?UnattributedOften credited to Patrick Henry
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Speech at New York Press Club (9 September 1912), in The papers of Woodrow Wilson, 25:124Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Speech at Bristol Previous to the Election (6 September 1780), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II (1855), p. 148No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family’s care.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick1928–1999“Kubrick’s Strange Love”, Gerard Fay, The Guardian (5th June 1963)There cannot be true democracy unless women’s voices are heard.
Hillary Clintonborn 1947Keynote Address at the Vital Voices Conference in Vienna, Austria (11 July 1997)The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.
