Quotes About Government

Adding an overarching tier of tyrants - the EU - to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man.

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

If men were angels, there would be no need of government.

It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise?

The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.

Man or woman in the White House. How about that?

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.

If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?

Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.

We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.