The repository contains 136 quotes in the category “Politics and Government.”
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

President George Washington
1732 — 1799

When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.

President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him?

President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826

The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield.

President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.

President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

President Theodore Roosevelt
1858 — 1919

If you think too much about being reelected, it is very difficult to be worth reelecting.

President Woodrow Wilson
1856 — 1924

In public life it is sometimes necessary in order to appear really natural to be actually artificial.

President Calvin Coolidge
1872 — 1933

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.

President Harry S Truman
1884 — 1972

When things don’t go well they like to blame Presidents; and that’s something that Presidents are paid for.

President John F. Kennedy
1917 — 1963

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

President John F. Kennedy
1917 — 1963

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

President John F. Kennedy
1917 — 1963

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but stand there and take it.

President Lyndon B. Johnson
1908 — 1973

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

President Richard M. Nixon
1913 — 1994

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004

Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.

President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004

When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can, and will, do too much.

President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004

If a bureaucrat had been writing the Ten Commandments, a simple rock slab would not have had nearly enough room. Those simple rules would have read, “Thou Shalt Not, unless you feel strongly to the contrary, or for the following stated exceptions (See Paragraphs 1-10, Subsection A).”

President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004

The kind of government that is strong enough to give you everything you need is also strong enough to take away everything that you have.

President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004

Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.

President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004

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