Quotes About Government

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all be friends in Washington philosophy.

Born free. Taxed to death.

If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, the result must necessarily be central planning.

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.

As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.

The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..."

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.

Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.

Let the government not be an instructor but a parent who loves and adjusts to the needs of the nation, But remember a parent does what makes things look good to the entire family without segregation.

In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.

You know that when ex-military personnel start assassinating their own government's agents that something funky is going on.

Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

We are not subjects of an autocratic King, but are citizens of the country contributing to the advancement of our people who pay taxes out of their hard earned income.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They're bedfellows."-General John JamesCommandant, USMCDecember 11th, 2032

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity