Quotes About Government

It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.

A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.

Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs of state.

The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.