Weak Government Quotes:

The greatest of all evils is a weak government

- Benjamin Disraeli

source: Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.242, London : H. Colburn

topic: Government, Evil, Weak Government

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

- Robert Ringer

source: Robert Ringer (2012). “The Entrepreneur: The Way Back for the U.S. Economy”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

topic: Strong, Government, People, Strong Government, Weak Government

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

- Calvin Coolidge

source: Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

topic: Strength, Peace, Strong, Strength Weakness, Strong People

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: Everybody's Political What's What? ch. 30 (1944)

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Witty, Funny Leadership, Income Tax

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

- William J. Clinton

topic: Successful, Government, Example, Weak Government

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

topic: Country, Struggle, Government, Social Groups, Weak Government

Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government.

- Irving Kristol

topic: Strong, Past, Government, Strong Government, Weak Government