Quotes About Government

Defining by a general law the expenditures on the...school....is a very different thing from appointing the state as educator of the people. Government and church should rather be equally excluded from any influence on the school.

oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Freedom consists in converting the state from an organ superimposed upon society into one completely subordinate to it

Parliament is a rumor mill staffed by trough-fed clods who abuse the tongue of their birth every time they open their mouths. They all gabble at once and confuse one another mightily, and when this confusion is committed to paper they refer to it as 'policy.

If some act is wrong it is simply wrong, no matter who tells you to do it or for what grand motive. It seemed to me that a true patriot and decent human being rejects doing wrong and puts the ideals on which the country is founded ahead of the directives of government bureaucrats. If the government is off the rails, you don't keep on riding the train to destruction—you certainly don't push it there on your own; you start hauling the other way as hard as you can.

Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.

Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.

Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.

Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

I have always been a House of Commons man.

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.

Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.