Quotes About Government

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.

What a man thinks is no concern of the government.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

New rule: Stop calling it Obamacare. It's not like Obama will be the doctor for your next prostate exam. That's just a common fantasy of Republican men.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.