Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frances O'Grady

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.

Fran Lebowitz

Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.

George W. Romney

I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.

George Wald

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

George Washington

In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable.

George Washington

To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad.

George Washington

This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.

George Washington

The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was to be, in the first instance, in a considerable degree a government of accommodation as well as a government of Laws. Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.

George Washington

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

George Washington

It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of tyranny, and those of a nature less liable to be surmounted, than any government hitherto instituted among mortals hath possessed.

George Washington

It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections.

George Washington

Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears to me to be little more than a shadow without the substance . . . .

George Washington

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

George Washington

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

George Washington

Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme

George Washington

I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves;

George Washington

Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

George Washington

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

George Washington

To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.

George Washington

It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of democratical governments, that the people must feel before they will see. When this happens they are roused to action. Hence it is that those kinds of government are so slow.

George Washington

Influence is not government.

George Washington

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

George Washington

The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

George Washington

The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.

George Washington

History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

George Washington

Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.

George Washington

Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be reprehended: If defective let it be amended, but not suffered to be trampled upon whilst it has an existence.

George Washington

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

George Washington

The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

George Washington

The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.

George Washington

But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter...

George Santayana

There is no right government except good government.

George P. Shultz

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.