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Quotes about government
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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. (Autry Alan)
An educated people can be easily governed. (Autry Alan)
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. (Autry Alan)
Governments never learn. Only people learn. (Autry Alan)
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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. (Autry Alan)
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. (Autry Alan)
The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness. (Autry Alan)
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. (Autry Alan)
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat. (Autry Alan)
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. (Autry Alan)
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. (Autry Alan)
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. (Autry Alan)
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government. (Autry Alan)
All good government must begin at home. (Autry Alan)
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. (Autry Alan)
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service] (Autry Alan)
The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war. (Autry Alan)
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary. (Autry Alan)
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. (Autry Alan)
Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to become one of the players. (Autry Alan)
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights. (Autry Alan)
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government. (Autry Alan)
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. (Autry Alan)
I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office (Autry Alan)
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. (Autry Alan)
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