Quotes About Politics

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is.

I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.

People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.

Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

All government is an ugly necessity.

Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.