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Quotes About Government

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
~ Paul Ryan
By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power.
~ Jacob G. Hornberger
The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
~ Walter Ulbricht
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.
~ Thomas Sowell
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.
~ Susan B. Anthony
'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.
~ Seth MacFarlane
Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
~ Thomas Carlyle
In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.
~ Plato
The Left is totalitarian in its nature
~ Dennis Prager
A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.
~ Jamie Dimon
The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
~ Benjamin Cardozo
I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.
~ Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr.
What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
~ Thomas Carlyle
The issues of political nature should be solved in any country, including in Syria, primarily by its people.
~ Vladimir Putin
The USA is a beautiful country...when you take the corrupt corporations and their government minions out of the equation.
~ Steven Magee
Nature is in the process of shutting down corrupt corporations and their government minions.
~ Steven Magee
It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.
~ Frank Peretti
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.
~ John Adams
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
~ Samuel Adams
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
~ Ronald Reagan
To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.
~ Brock Chisholm