National Government

National Government may refer to:

  • Central government
  • Government
  • National unity government, a broad coalition government consisting of all parties (or all major parties) in the legislature, usually formed during a time of war or other national emergency.
  • National Government (United Kingdom), 1931–1940, 1945
  • National Government (Canada), 1940
  • Polish National Government, 1831, 1846, 1863–1864

Famous quotes containing the words national government, national and/or government:

    “It is no part of the functions of the National Government to find employment for the people, and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for his purpose, we should only be taxing 40 millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.”
    —James A. Garfield (1831–1881)

    “National isolation breeds national neurosis.”
    —Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)

    “In our governments the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of government contrary to the sense of the constituents, but from the acts in which government is the mere instrument of the majority.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)