People Quotes

The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.

~ Mike Pence

This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.

~ John Wycliffe

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

~ Herbert Hoover

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

~ Grover Cleveland

The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

~ Edmund Morgan

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

~ William Mckinley

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

~ George W. Bush

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

~ Lewis Mumford

Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.

~ Ha-Joon Chang

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.

~ Ben Shapiro

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.

~ Robert E. Lee

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

~ Will Rogers

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

~ William E. Gladstone

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

~ Milton Friedman

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

~ William O. Douglas

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

~ Milton Friedman

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

~ Willie Nelson

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.

~ Daniel Ortega

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.

~ Albert Bushnell Hart

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

~ Henry Knox

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

~ Daniel Webster

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

~ David Hume

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

~ Andrew Cuomo

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

~ Christopher Reeve

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

~ Abraham Lincoln

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

~ Annie Besant

The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury.

~ Lysander Spooner

In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. That's not the case anymore.

~ Alan Moore

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

~ Richard M. Nixon

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.

~ Darrell Issa

I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations.

~ Ziggy Marley

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

~ Hugo Black

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

~ Pope Francis

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

~ Andrew Johnson

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

~ Jimmy Carter

Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.

~ Bob Barr

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

~ William Penn