Government Servant Quotes

#1. A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

George S. Patton

#2. I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

Faith Ringgold

#3. The ruler is the first servant of the state. He is paid well so that he can maintain the dignity of his office. But he is required in return to work effectively for the well-being of the state.

Frederick II Of Hohenstaufen

#4. The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.

Henry Ford

#5. To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

David Nasaw

#6. Keep a government poor and weak and it's your servant; let it get rich and powerful and it's your master.

H. Beam Piper

#7. Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing.

Ron Paul

#8. I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

David Rockefeller

#9. If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

Kin Hubbard

#10. At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."

Guillermo Del Toro

#11. Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.

George Washington

#12. I got into magic because I got into alchemy. Which I got into because I was into chemistry, which I was learning about because I wanted to get better with botany, which I had taken up studying in an effort to grow some killer weed

Drew Hayes

#13. Citizens are equal to government. They should be at the same height as government. Citizens have to know that the government is at their service, the government is the servant of people. But citizens know it's not like this. This is the theory, but in reality it's the other way.

Manuela Carmena

#14. I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.

Joe Nichols

#15. Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

Thomas Jefferson

#16. We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

Richard Dawkins

#17. If we want a healthy economy, we need the issuing of money to return to the government and not to be a power of private banks. We need money backed by real valuable goods, not pieces of paper that must be paid back at interest. Money is supposed to benefit humanity, not make us its servant.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#18. The source of the government's authority is "the consent of the governed." This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose.

Ayn Rand

#19. Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.

Robert A. Heinlein

#20. A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. Through compassion for the plight of one individual, government fulfills its purpose as the servant of all the people.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#21. Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

#22. A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

George Washington

#23. I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master.

Todd Akin

#24. This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

Barack Obama

#25. In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns.

Benjamin Franklin

#26. If anything, love was like light, illuminating what no one would have ever guessed was there in the darkness.

Alice Hoffman

#27. The real evil is usually the element that makes one nervous while they are confronting or exposing it.

Walid Shoebat

#28. Nothing will destroy creativity thought faster than judging the value of the idea on the spot.

Wendy Oldfield

#29. When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with no limit or restraint on what the government can take, then the government has become the master.

Ronald Reagan

#30. I don't read all the junk. I joke if I did, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. But, Sometimes the comments over the top - really ugly. Many of them are critical of my looks, like the one that criticized my "thunder thighs." I get that a lot. Some of the tweets are too vulgar to repeat.

Gretchen Carlson

#31. Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.

Miuccia Prada

#32. As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.

Geoff Mulgan