Quotes About Government

Some reconstructionists argue that Christian clerics should be in charge of government, similar to Iran's theocracy, or rule by clerics.

For the state, theology is too important to be left to the theologians.

Invalids were habitually hated by their carers. It took a special government grant, instituted in 1850 in the Seine and Loiret départements, to persuade poor families to keep their ailing relatives at home instead of sending them to that bare waiting room of the graveyard, the municipal hospice. When there was just enough food for the living, the mouth of a dying person was an obscenity.

If there is an injustice or a barbarity possible, I might have been sure the law of England would make haste to perpetrate it.

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

I wouldn't mind giving the feds their cut if they weren't so damn nosy, if any of them actually read the constitution and if they didn't spend every penny on some harebrained scheme.

Any cube can be found on the lawn of the White House.

Every democracy was a kind of anarchy in slow motion: any statute, any constitution could be changed, given time; any social contract, written or unwritten, could be dishonoured.

Expansion would break up society "into a greater variety of interests and pursuits of passions, which check each other." The amalgamation of power would be prevented, making it unnecessary to take government action, either to regulate concentrated wealth or to repress movements organized in opposition to concentrated wealth. "Extend the sphere

What's government for if not to help those in need?' 'The Government help those in need?' I cried. 'My God, man! What country are you living in?

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.   —Aristotle

If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.

Deregulated marketplace: a brilliant method by which profits are privatized and losses are socialized.

A Wall for the Mexican border was passed, and billions approved in 2006 [H.R. 6061 (109th): Secure Fence Act of 2006] , with the votes of Senators Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Ouch! Facts hurt.

The perforated men and the women with square heads left Tim with the strong impression that the government should stick to issuing budgets, not art. Frankie

Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.

It was the only free country left in the world," he once said, not talking about America but about rock'n'roll in America, or anywhere else. "No boundaries, no passports. There wasn't even a government.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people.

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

Communism is a hateful thing and a menace to peace and organized government; but the communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrowth of overweening cupidity and selfishness, which insidiously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil, which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wild disorder the citadel of rule.