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Government Quotes

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.

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.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

We have the best government that money can buy.

As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

It may be long before the law of love will be recognized in international affairs. The machinery's of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

Just as it is impossible to know when a swimming fish is drinking water, so it is impossible to find out when a government servant is stealing money.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

It is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men.