Quotes About Government

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

the wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Government is essentially immoral.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing.

Wo ein Klima der Ãœberwachung und Bespitzelung herrscht, kann ein freier und offener demokratischer Prozess nicht stattfinden.

Je weiter eine konkrete Tat entfernt ist, umso mehr ist dem Staat erlaubt, um sie zu verhindern.

Der Präventionsstaat muss [...] dem Bürger immer mehr Freiheiten nehmen, um ihm dafür Sicherheit zu geben.

In einem maßlosen Staat [...] gibt es vielleicht ein wenig mehr Sicherheit, aber ganz sicher sehr viel weniger Freiheit.

Nirgendwo werden aus vermeintlichen Absurditäten so schnell Normalitäten wie auf dem Gebiet der Inneren Sicherheit.

Wer Feind ist, ist keine rechtliche, sondern eine politische Frage.

Der Staat, der nur wegen und aus der Freiheit seiner Menschen besteht, darf sich nicht gegen seine Schöpfer wenden.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that working for you?

If 10% is good enough for God, 9% ought to be good enough for the federal government.

If I had been under ObamaCare, and a bureaucrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

In a political discussion about the empire, Harold the diplomat argued for the benefits of colonial rule: 'our English genius is for government.' Raymond opposed him: 'The governed don't seem to enjoy it.

A vicious circle has taken hold of our able-bodied men: they increasingly rely on the government to alleviate the misery created by that same government, not realizing that this dependency only perpetuates their sorry state of affairs.

La relación amigable con el gobierno se inició en 1922, cuando el presidente Warren G. Harding nos convocó a mí y a otros hombres de negocios a la Casa Blanca para ayudarlo a cumplir su promesa electoral de traer prosperidad a nuestra población poniendo «América en primer lugar».

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.