Government Quotations

Quotations relating to government.

Showing 73 through 78 of 78 quotations in this category.

"We must be 100 percent sure that every legal and technological method is provided to determine guilt in capital cases."

-Congressman Ray LaHood

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

-George Washington

"The Democrats' biggest foe isn't conservatives or the religious right, but their deep, ingrained assumption that human rationality will win the day over human nature."

-ZZ Packer

"Crippling of individuals [is what] I consider the worst evil of capitalism."

-Albert Einstein

"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous."

-William Proxmire

"Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities."

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