Quotes About Society

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

Compassion comes from the heart, not the government.

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

The worst government is the most moral.

The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.

Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.

When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

The people of America at some point are gonna have to realize that relying on government to fix everything is foolhardy.

Businesses should be focused on business and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.

Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.

The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.

I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help.

It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.