Quotes of: Conservative-government Keyword

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Lao Tzu

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

Jesse Ventura

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

Manmohan Singh

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

Susan B. Anthony

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.

Timothy McVeigh

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

Will Rogers

Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.

William Weld

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

Andrew Cuomo

Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

Al Franken

In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

Albert Bushnell Hart

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

Alexander Hamilton

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

Alphonso Jackson

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Andrew Jackson

If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.

Aung San Suu Kyi

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

Bob Ehrlich

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.

Bill Gates