Quotes About Weak Government

#1. The greatest of all evils is a weak government

Benjamin Disraeli

#2. You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

Robert Ringer

#3. There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.

William J. Clinton

#4. In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

John Reed

#5. Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.

Johan Huizinga

#6. If the government interferes to such an extent that the weak thrive and the strong are oppressed, society itself will collapse over time.

Amish Tripathi

#7. Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

Hjalmar Schacht

#8. The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same.

Tony Benn

#9. No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

#10. 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

#11. He was a very small man, both in stature and girth, who had been chosen as a running mate as much for his size as for his political beliefs. The pervasive thinking in government was that a taller vice president would make the President appear weak, replaceable.

Ann Patchett

#12. Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others

Jocelyn Murray

#13. Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.

Mark Steyn

#14. Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.

Edward Abbey

#15. The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love.

Myles Munroe

#16. I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation. King rules or barons rule: The strong man strongly and the weak man by caprice. They have but one law, to seize the power and keep it.

Samuel Smiles

#17. I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.

Rob Portman

#18. Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Abraham Lincoln

#19. Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#20. A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.

Peter Blair Henry

#21. I believe Government should encourage competition, NOT prop up the weak when the going gets tough.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#22. If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding.

Craig Venter

#23. Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.

Henry David Thoreau

#25. It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.

Robert Kennedy

#26. In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

Fareed Zakaria

#27. Our leaders, our government is us, all of us, so if they're venal and weak it's because we are.

David Foster Wallace

#28. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#29. MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

#30. Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

George Soros

#31. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#32. If the people are victorious against the government, the nation will be weak; if the government is victorious against the people, the military will have strength. [thus they] will have the means by which they may fight, and thus ascend to supremacy.

Shang Yang

#33. Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

Ray Davies

#34. Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

Isaac Asimov