Distrust Government Quotes

#1. Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

Eric Alterman

#2. Since the time of Voltaire and two-chamber Government, which is at bottom simply distrust and personal self-examination, and gives the popular mind that bad habit of being suspicious, the Church of France seems to have realised that books are its real enemies.

Stendhal

#3. I want to rasp into sober cryptology and say something dynamic, but tonight is my laundry night.

Sherman Alexie

#4. Nigeria and Pakistan are two countries that have had a lot of trouble with polio. And part of the reason is that there's a lot of political unrest, and people really distrust what the government is doing. That has an effect on people's health, and it has an effect on the health of children.

Eula Biss

#5. The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.

Ezra Taft Benson

#6. Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.

Edmund Morgan

#7. Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world.

L. Welch Pogue

#8. I wonder what will happen if i put a hand cream on my feet, will they get confused and start clapping?

Ellen DeGeneres

#9. While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.

Robert Teeter

#10. The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Edward Abbey

#11. I know what happens a the end of falling-landing

John Green

#12. No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

George Will

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Mark Z. Danielewski

#14. Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

Ben Shapiro

#15. The fact that one people's frontier is usually another's homeland has been mostly overlooked.

Kathleen Norris

#16. I think that people's resistance to vaccination isn't going to disappear until we address some of the nonmedical reasons for that resistance and people's discomfort and distrust of the government. That's bigger than what most medical professionals can handle.

Eula Biss

#17. At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.

Phil Zimmermann

#18. The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#19. A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation. It breeds distrust, dampens the fervor of its citizens and mocks their loyalty.

Russell B. Long

#20. Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.

Dennis E. Adonis

#21. The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Frank Herbert

#22. Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

Frank Bruni

#23. But how is that different from any other godforsaken stretch of coast half off the grid?" There were still dozens of them all across the country. Places that were poison to real-estate agents, with little infrastructure and a long history of distrust of the government.

Jeff VanderMeer

#24. My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

Steve Buscemi