Quotes About Society

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

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

Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.

The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

If government is inevitable, the challenge is to come up with the most effective one possible.

Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

The level of concern and anxiety among scientists - and I guess I'd say the science-friendly public - about the place of science in society in government, has gone beyond concern to anxiety.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.

What is government but theft by consent?

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.

The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

I know the police cause you troubleThey cause trouble everywhereBut when you die and go to heavenYou find no policeman there