Quotes About Government

The children of the 1960's that you call the 'Manson Family' wanted to stop a war and turn the government and world to peace. They gave their lives when they took lives and they knew it.

He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.

When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.

For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them.

He hadn't killed nearly as many people as I had. But then again, he hadn't had my advantage, which was the full cooperation of our Government.

We only win at war because we fight another government. If we fought private industry we would not last until noontime.

Frankly I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.

Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you've always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.