Quotes About Government
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
~ Thomas Jefferson
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Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
~ Benazir Bhutto
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The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.
~ Leonard Read
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The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.
~ Shirin Ebadi
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So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.
~ Michael Howard
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I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
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There can be no civil peace without the rule of law.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
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We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can ask other countries to create similar departments.
~ Peace Pilgrim
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The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.
~ H. G. Wells
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I have no clear idea about this development, however, I have full faith in the government's peace talks committee. I suggest TTP choose its representatives from among its own leadership
~ Imran Khan
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The admitted right of a government to prevent the influx of elements hostile to its internal peace and security may not be questioned, even where there is not treaty stipulation on the subject.
~ Grover Cleveland
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I like Kindness it's something the Government can't tax and it's free to give away that will return to you some day
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
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We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
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A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
~ Gerald R. Ford
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Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.
~ Robert Nozick
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My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.
~ John Bolton
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The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.
~ Andrew Napolitano
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There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.
~ Peter Marshall
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The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.
~ Clifford Geertz
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In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
~ Ronald Reagan
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Statism ends with an eye roll.
~ Stefan Molyneux
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